MÜELLİFİ BİLİNMEYEN MANZUM BİR TÜRKÇE-KÜRTÇE SÖZLÜK
A POETIC TURKISH-KURDISH DICTIONARY BY AN UNKNOWN AUTHOR

Summary/Abstract: Dictionaries are the memories, record books, and word repositories of languages. Multilingual dictionaries, thought to have originated from language interaction, and their Islamic period versions, rhymed dictionaries, are a continuation of this tradition of record-keeping and a product of the aim to facilitate language learning and/or teaching. In light of the sources available to us today, the writing of rhymed dictionaries in the Kurdish language, which began in the 17th century, has continued to the present day. The work we examined is a handwritten TurkishKurdish dictionary registered at the British Museum. The writing style indicates that it is a 19th-century manuscript. This poem consists of 10 pages and 142 verses. The poem provides the Turkish equivalents of approximately 353 words, 9 phrases (word groups), and 75 sentences, along with their Kurdish equivalents. In most of the poem, the Turkish word is given first, followed by its Kurdish meaning. It is understood that the purpose of this is to teach Turkish to Kurdish students. On the other hand, the aruz meter in which the work was written was not recorded by the author or the copyist, but upon examination, it is based on the four-line complete meter of the remel bahr. As for the rhyme scheme of the text, although the rhyme scheme of this dictionary, like all other dictionaries, is in the mesnevi style, the vast majority of the rhymes end with the sound “e” (ە(. This is more of a response that the poet wanted to say “this is it.” In conclusion, our work has brought another Kurdish manuscript to light and has contributed to the study of the Kurdish language.

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