Trakya Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (Jun 2019)

COLOR NAMES IN TURKMEN TURKISH

  • Levent DOĞAN

DOI
https://doi.org/10.26468/trakyasobed.455917
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 1
pp. 125 – 144

Abstract

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Turkish, being a rich language, is vivid and various in terms of the concept of colors. It can be seen with the main colors that the sub-tones of these colors are depicted in detail. The colors that have an important place in our lives have been used by people from old times in a versatile way. Mainly as a distinctive feature of an object, colors have been symbolized as a result of spiritual meanings that are attributed in every culture. Each discipline has studied the colors in different ways according to their own field of study. As a result of this, many new opinions and suggestions about colors have been made and different functions of colors have been revealed. In this study, the names of colors in Turkmen, which is one of the dialects of Turkish and which is in Oghuz (Southwestern) group in classification, are compiled from various sources. Names created using color names are also included in the study along with the words that express color. Especially the linguistic aspect of the color names is concentrated and the structure of the words such as the transformation of the color names of the main suffixes used in the color name derivation in Turkmen are emphasized. Words derived from reification form nature, which is a method whose importance and contribution can not be rejected, are also denoted. In addition to these, the names of the colors that we have identified from the works of Old Turkish period, Dîvânü Lûgati-t Türk and Kutadgu Bilig, and the Turkmen color names are compared and similarities and changes experienced are shown. The color names are intensively preferred because they are words suitable for word derivation, and the color-coded words are combined with another word to meet a new concept. Names derived from colors that are found in Turkmen sources are shown under titles according to their fields. The proverbs and idioms of the Türkmen folk literature products which the name of color passed in the study are also mentioned.

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