THE CONCEPTS OF ABSTRACT TIME AND SPACE IN THE MODERN UYGHUR TRANSLATION OF THE QURAN
YENİ UYGUR KUR’AN TERCÜMESİNDE SOYUT ZAMAN VE MEKAN KAVRAMLARI

Author : Erol TOPAL
Number of pages : 175-191

Abstract

Modern Uyghur Turkish has been influenced by political, social and cultural changes until its present day, and therefore some differences between it and other Turkic dialects have occurred. However, despite these interactions, Uyghur Turkish has succeeded in preserving its essence and has produced texts in many fields. One of these areas is religious texts. Religious texts have a great importance in terms of enriching the vocabulary of languages. In particular, the equivalents to abstract concepts in religious texts reveal the magnitude of the language. In addition, in terms of processing the language, it is important to give equivalents to abstract concepts. The purpose of this study is to determine how much of the time and space concepts in the Modern Uyghur translation written by Muhammed Salih in 1992 was in Modern Uyghur and how much in Arabic or Persian. This translation is one of the recent translations. In this respect, it is important to give equivalents to the religious terms in the recent period. In this study, only the noun forms of the concepts of the Hereafter, Doomsday, the day of judgement, Heaven and Hell which are mentioned in the Modern Uyghur Translation of the Quran were examined. First, the places where these concepts and the other names of these were mentioned in the Quran were located verse by verse. They were written together with the verse numbers. Then, the equivalents and meanings of these concepts in the Modern Uyghur Turkish translation of the Quran were written. In addition, the first verse where the term was mentioned is shown as an example. At the end of the study, how much of the identified terms is in Modern Uyghur and how much in Arabic or Persian are indicated by numerical and percentage values.

Keywords

Quran, Religious term, Modern Uyghur equivalent, numerical value.

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