A DICTIONARY ABOUT LOVE WRITTEN BY MEHMET CELÂL: SEVDA LÜGATİ
MEHMET CELÂL’İN KALEMİNDEN AŞKA DAİR BİR SÖZLÜK: SEVDA LÜGATİ

Author : Ahmet DEMİR
Number of pages : 57-72

Abstract

The Sevda Lügati (1330/1914) which is a work of Mehmet Celâl (1867-1912) who is the poet of Ara Nesil, is a dictionary about love. While the dictionary stands out a different direction of Mehmet Celâl's literary personality, it is also important in terms of Turkish lexicography. Sevda Lügati is a thematic dictionary with pictures and it also carries the character of ‘antidictionary’. It is a dictionary in which the concepts belong to the conceptual field of 'love' and the concepts which find new meanings in the context of ‘love’ exist. In the dictionary there are 260 words in the context of ‘love’. Each word is exemplified either by Mehmet Celâl’s own poems or by poems which belong to Turkish poets, especially poets of divan literature. Therefore, Sevda Lügati also gives plenty of material for researches about Turkish literature, poetry and cultural history. In this context, in our study, Sevda Lügati is evaluated according to the characteristics it carries. The general character of the Work is revealed.

Keywords

Mehmet Celâl, Sevda Lügati, love, dictionary.

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