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ARMENIAN-TURKISH DICTIONARY (REFÎ'-İ KÂLÂYÎ)

Title	ARMENIAN-TURKISH DICTIONARY (REFÎ'-İ KÂLÂYÎ)
Author	Refî-i Kâlâyî (d. 1174/1760 - ö. 1239/1823)
Publication Date:	22/04/2022
Subject	Written Literature / Divan Literature - verse dictionary
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Library:	Dictionary of Turkish Literature Works
Record ID	ermenice-turkce-lugat-refi-i-kalayi
Date	?
Notes	Verse dictionary written by Refî-i Kâlâyî following the Ottoman verse dictionary tradition. Mehmet Süreyya also shows that he attaches importance to the work by mentioning the poet's Armenian Dictionary in addition to his Divan in his Sicill-i Osmanî (1311: 413). The work, which has a total of 78 couplets, is bilingual, with Turkish and Armenian side by side. The words are mentioned in Turkish and Armenian respectively, without observing a certain order in the poem. The fact that it starts with two religious words such as god and prophet with the line "to god asvas kiristos didiler prophete" is an indication that the tradition is followed. At the end of the poem, Kâlâyî feels the need to say that although he writes such a dictionary, he is not Armenian. In the Ottoman lexicographic tradition, verse dictionaries are generally Turkish, Arabic; It is written in three languages: Turkish, Persian and Arabic, Persian and Turkish, called elsine-i selase. It is the only available verse dictionary written in Armenian, which is a different language, apart from the Turkish-Greek dictionary in Fevzi's Tuhfetü'l-Uşşâkadın and the Turkish-French verse dictionary in Yusuf Halis' Miftah-ı Lisanat. In addition, the 19th century Armenian spoken language in Western Anatolia was recorded with the document at hand (Dankoff 1996: 21). The Armenian-Turkish Dictionary was printed in America by Dankoff, Robert, A. Turgut Kut and J.J.S Weitenberg, using four copies (Dankoff 1996: 199). For the poet's biography, see. "Refî-i Kâlâyî". Dictionary of Turkish Literature Names.
ISBN	978-9944-237-87-1
Madde Yazarı	Ismail Aksoyak
Alfabesi	Arap
Yapısı	Manzum
Niteliği	Telif
Kaynakça	Aksoyak, İ. Hakkı (2001). “Refî-i Kâlâyî'ye Dair Yeni Bilgiler ve “Geçme Çubuk” ile İlgili Manzumesi”.Türk Kültürü İncelemeleri. (4):159-172. Aksoyak, İ. Hakkı (2009). “Şerh Kitapları George Prior’u Tanır mı?”.Turkish Studies. (4): 13-21. Alpaydın, Bilal (hzl.)(2007).Refî‘-i Kâlâyî Dîvânı (İnceleme-Metin). Yüksek Lisans Tezi. İstanbul: İstanbul Üniversitesi. Dankoff, Robert, A. Turgut Kut ve J.J.S Weitenberg (1996).The Versified Armenian-Turkish Glossary by Kâlâyî. Cleveland State University.
Atıf Bilgileri	Aksoyak, ismail. "ERMENİCE-TÜRKÇE LÜGAT (REFÎ'-İ KÂLÂYÎ)".Türk Edebiyatı Eserler Sözlüğü,http://tees.yesevi.edu.tr/madde-detay/ermenice-turkce-lugat-refi-i-kalayi. [Erişim Tarihi: 25 Ağustos 2025].

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Dictionary of Turkish Literature Works

ARMENIAN-TURKISH DICTIONARY (REFÎ'-İ KÂLÂYÎ)

Author Refî-i Kâlâyî (d. 1174/1760 - ö. 1239/1823)

Publication Date 22/04/2022

Subject Written Literature / Divan Literature - verse dictionary

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital No

Manuscript No

Library Dictionary of Turkish Literature Works

Record ID ermenice-turkce-lugat-refi-i-kalayi

Date ?

Notes Verse dictionary written by Refî-i Kâlâyî following the Ottoman verse dictionary tradition. Mehmet Süreyya also shows that he attaches importance to the work by mentioning the poet's Armenian Dictionary in addition to his Divan in his Sicill-i Osmanî (1311: 413). The work, which has a total of 78 couplets, is bilingual, with Turkish and Armenian side by side. The words are mentioned in Turkish and Armenian respectively, without observing a certain order in the poem. The fact that it starts with two religious words such as god and prophet with the line "to god asvas kiristos didiler prophete" is an indication that the tradition is followed. At the end of the poem, Kâlâyî feels the need to say that although he writes such a dictionary, he is not Armenian. In the Ottoman lexicographic tradition, verse dictionaries are generally Turkish, Arabic; It is written in three languages: Turkish, Persian and Arabic, Persian and Turkish, called elsine-i selase. It is the only available verse dictionary written in Armenian, which is a different language, apart from the Turkish-Greek dictionary in Fevzi's Tuhfetü'l-Uşşâkadın and the Turkish-French verse dictionary in Yusuf Halis' Miftah-ı Lisanat. In addition, the 19th century Armenian spoken language in Western Anatolia was recorded with the document at hand (Dankoff 1996: 21). The Armenian-Turkish Dictionary was printed in America by Dankoff, Robert, A. Turgut Kut and J.J.S Weitenberg, using four copies (Dankoff 1996: 199). For the poet's biography, see. "Refî-i Kâlâyî". Dictionary of Turkish Literature Names.

ISBN 978-9944-237-87-1

Madde Yazarı Ismail Aksoyak

Alfabesi Arap

Yapısı Manzum

Niteliği Telif

Kaynakça Aksoyak, İ. Hakkı (2001). “Refî-i Kâlâyî'ye Dair Yeni Bilgiler ve “Geçme Çubuk” ile İlgili Manzumesi”.Türk Kültürü İncelemeleri. (4):159-172. Aksoyak, İ. Hakkı (2009). “Şerh Kitapları George Prior’u Tanır mı?”.Turkish Studies. (4): 13-21. Alpaydın, Bilal (hzl.)(2007).Refî‘-i Kâlâyî Dîvânı (İnceleme-Metin). Yüksek Lisans Tezi. İstanbul: İstanbul Üniversitesi. Dankoff, Robert, A. Turgut Kut ve J.J.S Weitenberg (1996).The Versified Armenian-Turkish Glossary by Kâlâyî. Cleveland State University.

Atıf Bilgileri Aksoyak, ismail. "ERMENİCE-TÜRKÇE LÜGAT (REFÎ'-İ KÂLÂYÎ)".Türk Edebiyatı Eserler Sözlüğü,http://tees.yesevi.edu.tr/madde-detay/ermenice-turkce-lugat-refi-i-kalayi. [Erişim Tarihi: 25 Ağustos 2025].