ARCHAIC WORDS IN IMADEDDIN NESIMI’S VOCABULARY
İMADEDDİN NESİMİ'NİN SÖZ VARLIĞINDA ARKAİK KELİMELER

Author : Sabina ABİD
Number of pages : 189-207

Abstract

Imadeddin Nesimi is a poet who carried Azerbaijani literature in 13th-14th century to the peak. He not only led the development of Azerbaijani literature but also contributed largely to the development of mother tongue and national language. The words he skillfully used in his poems paved the way for creation of the literary language in his time. Although Nesimi authored Arabic and Persian poems, he always valued national language and national words above others. This paper deals with and discusses the words in Nesimi’s vocabulary, being not archaic yet at his time. The words contained in Nesimi’s vocabulary, several of which bear national characteristics and which became archaic, do not exist in modern day Azerbaijani Turkish vocabulary. The archaic words used in Nesimi’s vocabulary continue to be used in local dialects of Azerbaijani Turkish although they are not used in the literary language. This paper discusses and shows the forms and meanings of archaic words in Nesimi’s vocabulary in Old and Modern Turkish dialects.

Keywords

Imadeddin Nesimi, vocabulary, archaic words

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