Phonopoetic spectra of poetic texts in Mahmud Kashgari's "Divan"

Abstract

Mahmud Kashgari's "Divanu lugat-it-turk" is the first Turkish dictionary written in the history of the world. This magnificent monument of art is not only a dictionary, but also a great and valuable look at the history, ethnic, spiritual and cultural world, ethnography, folklore, whole artistic thought, philosophical speech of the Turks from a thousand years ago, reflecting the characteristics of the period in which it was written. , is a reliable source whose price is not measured by anything. Mahmud Kashgari could have written poetry and created epics, but he did not go that way. All the poetic examples included in the dictionary are still alive today and attract more attention in terms of phonopoetic features. There is a rich material for poetry in this prestigious monument of art, and the phonopoetic spectra of the samples collected and presented by Nin are interpreted in a poetic way in the article.

Mahmud Kashgari in Divan ranked the words according to the phonetic rules of the Arabic language. "Their meanings are explained by appropriate language patterns, idioms and proverbs used in various Turkish dialects, and the quatrains in which they are placed". In the process of such disclosure, the prominent linguist Mahmud Kashgari used such poetic texts that, in addition to giving the reader a full impression of the form indicators of ancient Turkish poetry, rich linguistics to conduct extensive research on the phonopoetic spectra of sound play - alliteration and assonance. gives material.