MUKADDİMETÜ'L-EDEB'İN YOZGAT NÜSHASINDA KUŞ ADLARI
BIRD NAMES IN THE YOZGAT COPY OF MUKADDIMETÜ'L-EDEB

Summary/Abstract: Mukaddimetü'l-Edeb is the most comprehensive dictionary written in the Harezm period. The work was written by Zemahşerî in the 12th century at the request of the ruler of the period, Harezmşah Atsız bin Muhammed bin Anuştigin but the orignal copy of the work has not been found yet. The work is a practical Arabic dictionary. The Yozgat copy that is the subject of the study consists of three parts: nouns, verbs and letters. The vocabulary of the Yozgat copy is quite remarkable. The copy consists of words in many different fields like concepts of time, sky, earth, mines, roads and journeys, water and aquatic creatures, plants, flowers, occupations, abstract concepts, religious terms, food, clothing, colors, numbers, kinship terms, kitchen utensils, animals, war instruments. The subject of the study is the bird names in the work. Birds are important in that they reflect the cultural and social life of the people living at that time. For this reason, bird names have been the subject of study for many social scientists. When the said copy is examined, bird names among animal names are quite numerous when compared to other copies and other works of the period. 49 of the 164 animal names in Yozgat copy are bird names. In this study, bird names in the Yozgat copy of the work will be determined and examined.

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