ÇAĞATAYCA “MECMA‘Ü’L-HAVÂS TEZKİRESİ”NDE GEÇEN “KEḎRE” KELİMESİ ÜZERİNE
IN THE MATTER OF THE WORD "KEDRE" SEEN AT A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR WRITTEN IN CHAGATAI LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important sources of Turkish Literature are the biographical memoirs including the biographies of poets and the samples of their poems. The language of the famous text Majalisun-Nafayis written by Alî Şîr Nevâyî is in Chagatai Turkish, the common language of whole Central Asia between XV-XVI centuries. The “Majmaul-Havas” was the second biographical memoir of poets after Majalisun-Nafayis written in Chagatai Turkish. Its author is Sadiq Beg Afshar or Sâdıkî-i Kitâbdâr. In this study, the word “Keḏre” seen three times in this text highly interested our relevance. Additionally, the opinions on the origin of this word and its analysis shared in mentioned survey. The reason why this word was brought up by us was that it was not detected in any Chagatai Turkish dictionary. Besides, the word preserved the archaic "ḏ" phoneme existed in the Old and Middle Turkish, in the beginning and middle of the word.

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