Abstract:

During the Ottoman period, translations and commentaries, especially Persian and Arabic works, were performed by various commentators and translators. Within this rich tradition, different approaches and methods have appeared. The commentators and translators formed their own theories by using certain translation methods in the commentaries they wrote on their works. Identifying these practices and revealing the qualities of the translations is extremely important for understanding the Ottoman translation tradition. In this study, translation strategies are analyzed through examples taken from the commentary "Şerh-i Divan-ı Urfî" written by Yanyalı Süleyman Efendi on Urfî-i Şirâzî's qasidas. After providing a general overview of translation methods and strategies in the Ottoman period, the study examines the following translation strategies; compensation (cultural substitution), alienation, emulation, localization (adaptation), cultural borrowing (borrowing), communicative translation, concretization, specialization (lower sense translation), generalization (higher sense translation), paraphrasing (annotated translation), addition (expansion), subtraction (contraction), The extent to which general translation strategies such as inference (suggestive term), substitution, transformation, standardization, perspective shift, literal translation (word-for-word), historicization, and text manipulation are used in Şerh-i Divan-ı Urfî has been determined. In this context, the characteristics of the Ottoman translation tradition have been tried to be understood by identifying translation strategies through a sample of translation and commentary works written in the Ottoman period. This analysis aims to reveal the prominent strategies of the Ottoman translation and commentary tradition and contributes to the theoretical understanding of this tradition.

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