Abstract:

Firdaws al-Iqbâl, narrating the history of Khanate of Khiva in PostClassical Chagatai Turkish language, should not be considered only as a historical text. The author Shir Muhammad Mirab Mûnis (1778-1829) provides information about many other topics, such as organization of the Khanate, ethnicity of people in Khiva, their languages, their cultures, agriculture and commerce, geography of the Khanate, important persons of the time etc. In this regard, geographical data of the time is also available in the work. This study deals with the words aral, atav, töbek/tübek, which basically mean "island", in 156b and 336a sheetes. The words that are dealt with in the study are presented with their counterparts in the above-mentioned sheets in Firdaws al-Iqbal, and with their frequency of use in the sheets and some sentence samples are also demonstrated. The aim of this study is to contribute to the studies on the vocabulary of Chagatai Turkish by revealing how often and in which contexts the words that are discussed in this study are used in Firdaws al-Iqbal, and also to highlight the information and explanations that the author Mûnis reports regarding the Khiva's geography and climate and how they were translated in Khiva.