The Vocabulary Of First Gulistan Translations


The Turkish language until today has been spoken in various regions of the world, produced new words itself, and borrowed words from other languages and lent words to them as well. All of these experiences that our language underwent has matured and renewed itself as has been the case with the other languages. It is known that Western Turkish produced works in Kıpchak Turkish and Old Anatolian Turkish in two different regions, namely in Anatolia and Egypt in the 14th and 15th centuries. Some of these works are copyrighted while some others are translated works. One of these translated works is Gulistan written by Sadi-i Şirazi. Gulistan is an important work in Persian written in 656 (1258) for Ebu Bekir bin Sa’d bin Zengi, a member of Salgurlu Dynasty. So far this important work has been translated into many world languages. It is known that this work has been translated into Turkish many times in various dates and eras. In 1391 the first Turkish translation of Gulistan was made in Kıpchak Turkish by Seyf-i Serai in Egypt where Kıpchak Turkish was the written language. In 1430 Gulistan was translated by Kadi Manyas into the Old Anatolian Turkish for the first time which became a written language in Anatolia for the first time and formed a basis for the present day Turkey Turkish. These two translations made in the years that are so close and in two different areas of Western Turkish shed light to their eras with their vocabulary used. In this study the two translated works in two areas of Turkish will be compared in terms of vocabulary and an attempt to perform an assessment will be made in the light of the data obtained.


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Gulistan, Seyf-i Serayi, Manyaslı Mahmud

Author : Ali Osman SOLMAZ
Number of pages: 823-834
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.7666
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Journal of Turkish Studies
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