Ed-Derâri’l-Lâmi’ât fi Müntaḫabâti’l-Lugât: İnceleme-Metin-Sözlük

Abstract

This thesis has been prepared on Ed-Derârî’l-Lami‘ât fî Müntaḫabâti’l-Lügât, which Muhammed İbni Ali El-Ünsî wrote in AH 1318 / AD 1900 for the purpose of teaching Turkish to Arabs and which was printed in AH 1320 / AD 1902 at the Cerîdet Beirut Printing House in Beirut. The study aims to introduce the work, to set out its lexicographic position and functioning, and to provide a reliable text-and-index in terms of word-formation and text transmission. The thesis consists of five chapters: In the Introduction, the author and his works, language policy in the Ottoman period, the structure of schools in the Arab countries during the Ottoman era, the lexicographic milieu, and the dictionaries and grammars written for teaching Turkish to Arabs are discussed. In the lexicographic analysis, the work is evaluated within a contemporary theoretical framework, and the classification has been carried out based on Atkins and Rundell’s typology. In the word-formation chapter, the affixes appearing in the headwords have been analyzed based on the vocalization used by the author; usages that do not accord with the phonetic features of the period have been identified and explained in that chapter. In the Text chapter, the headwords have been transferred from Ottoman Turkish (Arabic script) into Turkish in Latin script, considering the author’s vocalization. The text has been arranged in four columns: Turkish in Latin script, Ottoman Turkish in Arabic script, the Arabic equivalents, and the Turkish equivalents. The index has been prepared in two parts. The first index is arranged in four columns: the Latin-script headwords appear in the left columns and the Arabic-script headwords in the right columns; indexing has been carried out according to the order of the Arabic alphabet. The second index has been compiled solely from Turkish Latin-script headwords and is organized according to the order of the Turkish alphabet.