Abstract:

The tradition of writing dictionaries in verse examples of which have been seen in Turkish literature from the 15th century is based on the works of 11th century Arabic linguists. It is seen that these dictionaries which are generally written with prosody meter were originally written for a better understanding of works such as the Quran and Masnavi of the Mevlana. In the tradition of writing dictionaries in verse that became widespread in a short time, bilingual dictionaries such as Arabic-Turkish, Persian-Turkish, Arabic-Persian-Turkish were written. It is also seen that dictionaries such as Bosnian-Turkish, Greek-Turkish, French-Turkish are written few in number. In this tradition where many dictionaries in verse were written in order to help the education of children of the age of madrasah and the school, or a better understanding of a work, it is observed that those written materials had a certain compositions. Dictionaries in verse consist of three main sections: Introduction mukaddime , the original dictionary section, and epilogue hatime . The verses like besmele, tevhid, münacat, na’t take part in the sections of introduction mukaddime as it is seen in many works in the Islamic tradition. While the actual dictionary section of these dictionaries starts, it is noteworthy that many of the authors started to the original section by giving the answers of the name of Allah according to the feature of the dictionary they wrote. This article focuses on this feature seen in dictionaries in verse.

Keywords: