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Divanu Lugati’t-Turk As A Dictionary Of Geography Terms
Diwan Lugat at-Turk is one of the basic source of Turkish language and literature from the point of its glossal materials. Also it is a very important encyclopedic dictionary for Turkish philology, history, folklor and geography. Conspicuously, the words in it given according to a certain order have a special importance for Turkish onomastics. Besides, the terminology of various components such as social, economical, ethnological, folkloristic, geographical etc. elements which are effective today from different perspectives, are revealed in detail. On the side, these elements are providers to understand assorted branches of Turkish culture and old Turkish world. In this work, Turkish geography terms as a unit dictionary in the terminologies of Diwan are analysed and some terms are clarified etymologically and morphologically. Hereby the old geography terms of Turks are illuminated. These terms have extensive significance with regards to Turkish onomastics, especially in order to determine the toponyms (ex. oronyms like names of mountains, hills, ridges, crests etc. or hidronyms like names of branch, brook, river etc.).
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Divanu Lugati’t-Turk, dictionary, geography, terminology