Abstract
DATA REGARDING WORK CONCEPT IN DIVANU LUGATI'T-TURK
Divanü Lûgati’t-Türk (DLT), which is a cultural treasure of Turkish, shows wideness and prosperity of Turkish vocabulary in 11th century and also puts forward interesting recordings about people and community life, materialistic and moral culture in that century. From this point of view, DLT which was, approximately, written a thousand years ago, is, as a great many researchers agreed, one of the first historical and cultural reference books rather than being the first Turkish dictionary. The life style and understanding life of societies can be seen on languages of societies.
DLT has been one of the research subjects in the science of Turkishness nearly for an age. This work is precious in terms of reflecting cultural properties as well as being important in terms of literature. Turkish culture has influenced many cultures and it had been influenced by many cultures in history. Change in the life style of the settled Turks has also been reflected on their culture. Old Turkish society life has developed by having intertwined with social, political, economic and environmental conditions in old periods of Turkish.
In this study will be examined data regarding work concept in Divanu Lugati't Türk. It is possible to find every kind of data about social life in the work as it reflects Turkish culture. Our study a screening model been based on document review. Therefore, firstly scanning Divanü Lûgati’t-Türk line by line, all words, idioms, proverbs, couplets and written-in-verse components reflecting work concept of its age have been indexed and listed in it self.
Keywords
Divanü Lûgati’t-Türk, vocabulary, the work concept
