For The Word Journey into Turkish Phrases and Proverbs
Türkçede Gezi ile İlgili Deyimler ve Atasözleri Üzerine

Author : Harun BEKİR
Number of pages : 187-197

Abstract

Evliya Chelebi is one of the most famous travelers of 17 century. For over 50 years he has travelled around the lands of Ottoman Empire and described his travels in his book called “Seyahatname”. Seyahat-name (“book of travels”) is the name of a literary form and tradition whose examples can be found throughout centuries in the Middle Ages around the Islamic world. The name refers to the travel notes by the Ottoman Turkish traveller Eviliya Chelebi. This will be an evaluation test on the proverbs and idioms of the Turkish "trip". In this study, it is aimed to show in what form and in what conditions the proverbs and phrases related to the "trip" are made in today's Turkish. For this purpose, we will try to evaluate the formal and semantic properties of proverbs and idioms by scanning dictionaries.

Keywords

Turkish language, trip, idioms, proverbs.

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