Abstract:

Since Old Kipchak possesses very few works, Turkic works of Mamluk era have always been examined within the scope of Kipchak language. These works, however, also include indisputably large Oghuz vocabulary as much as Kipchak one. One of these works is a glossary, which has no own manuscript, but is written down on the margins of Kitāb al‐Idrāk li lisan al‐Atrāk. The margin glosses of Kitāb al‐Idrāk has such a vocabulary that only half of it can be found in other Mamluk‐Kipchak works. This original part of the margin glosses seems to have to do with Anatolian Turkish with respect to their phonological character as well as containing many loanwords from Greek and Armenian. This paper compares the original part of margin glosses of Kitāb al‐Idrāk with Anatolian Turkish in three substrata (Old Anatolian Turkish XIII‐XIX. cc.; Anatolian Turkish dialects; standard Turkish) and lists the words matched. This matching also sheds light on Oghuzification of Mamluk‐Kipchak language.

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