Özet:

From the very beginning, animals have always lived with human beings while serving us in real life or by appearing in stories, myths, legends, all in all, in all narrative genres either as heroes or as a matter of figures of speech. Some features of animals have caused them being prioritized in humans’ world of thought. They (peacocks and swans) sometimes symbolized beauty, sometimes intellect (fox) and in other cases power (lions and elephants). Unfortunately, it was stubbornness that is left to the donkey’s share. The donkey was of tremendous help to humans when the wheel was not found just as he helped transportation, farming, harvesting and water carrying. In that sense, the donkey was a heart’s major property even in city life although humans’ dependence on them lessened with the development of technology.  However, because of its importance, many words, expressions and sayings included the word donkey. In Turkish, the word donkey was used to symbolize stubbornness and stupidity which is the subject of this present study which looked at the variety associated with the word donkey in Anatolian Turkish.

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