%0 Journal Article
%T ON THE TRACK OF A WORD: REFLECTIONS ON THE WORD ¡°LEVEND¡± IN CLASSICAL TURKISH POETRY B R KEL MEN N  Z NDE: KLAS K T¨¹RK    R NDE ¡°LEVEND¡± ¨¹ZER NE BAZI D¨¹ ¨¹NCELER
%A Hanife KONCU
%J Turkish Studies
%D 2010
%I Turkish studies publisher
%X Poets of Classical Turkish literature are artists who make use of various meanings of words and create a unique world of metaphors. One of the words they use, ¡°levend¡± has different meanings in Turkish, Persian, Persian-Turkish, Ottoman/Persian-English dictionaries and dictionaries of historical terms. It is known that levends, one of the important military groups of the Ottoman Empire, were also involved in some socially inappropriate behavior after a certain period. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the meanings of ¡°levend¡± as used in poets, elements related to levends, negative aspects of them and the world of metaphors created around this group with selected examples. Klasik T¨¹rk edebiyat   airleri, kelimelerin  ok de i ik anlamlar ndan yararlanan, de i ik bir benzetme d¨¹nyas  olu turan sanat  lard r. Onlar n kulland klar  kelimelerden biri olan ¡°levend¡±, T¨¹rk e, Fars a, Fars a-T¨¹rk e, Osmanl ca/Fars a- ngilizce ve tarih terimleri s zl¨¹klerinde farkl  anlamlar  bar nd rmaktad r. Osmanl  Devleti¡¯nin  nemli asker  gruplar ndan olan levendlerin, belli bir d nemden sonra toplumda olumsuz, uygun olmayan i ler de yapt klar  bilinmektedir. Bu  al  mada ¡°levend¡± kelimesinin anlamlar ndan hangilerinin  iirlerde kullan ld   , levendlerle ilgili unsurlar, onlarla ilgili olumsuzluklar ve bu grup etraf nda olu turulan benzetme d¨¹nyas  se ilen  rneklerle g sterilmeye  al   lm  t r.
%K Classical Turkish poetry
%K levend
%K sailor
%K Ottoman Klasik T¨¹rk  iiri
%K levend
%K denizci
%K Osmanl
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