@article{2014,title={Idioms in Süleymanname-i Kebir’s Firdevsi-i Rumi},abstractNode={This article gives a brief information about the life and the works of Firdevsi (Firdevsi-i Rumi Firdevsi-i Tavil) who has lived within the ends of the 15th till the beginnings of the 16th century and the idioms found in Süleymanname’s 43th volume have been reviewed. Firdevsi, who has completed his works within the time of the Old Anatolian Turkish, has lived during the reigns of Fatih Sultan Mehmed, Sultan Bayezid II and Sultan Selim I. Süleymanname-i Kebir was written by Firdevsi-i Rumi at the beginning of 16th century as a work of an encyclopedic nature narrating the life and tales of Prophet Soliman. In addition, this work features topics about eastern mythologies, tales of other prophets, history, wisdom, geometry, astronomy, geography and medicine. It is stated in Süleymanname that Efrasiyab-ı Türk who struggled against Prophet Solomon was actually Alp Er Tunga one of the figures of the Turkish mythology. The author uses such a plain, interesting and lively fashion of expression in this work to the point that it draws attention to the parallelism it has with Dede Korkut stories. His rich use of vocabulary facilitates the fluency in his works. Proverbs, idioms, hendiadyoins and also word unities formed by sound and word repetitions which take place in Süleymanname-i Kebir have a significant cultural contribution to the Turkish language of Turkey. Many of the idioms which take place in Süleymanname’s reviewed 43rd volume not only enable us to have some idea about the linguistic characteristics of the Old Anatolian Turkish and the stereotyped structures which express the value pronouncements of that period but also provide us with the possibility of making comparisons regarding the contemporary idioms. Some of the idioms in Süleymanname are being used at the present day in the original form while others have went through sound or meaning alternation and some of them are not being used any longer.},author={Asuman AHMED ABDO SHABAN},year={2014},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}