ONE OF THE OUR VERSE DICTIONARIES: SüBHA- SIBYAN ERH “HED YYETü’L- HVAN”

Verse dictionaries, one of the areas of Classical Turkish Literature, hasn’t been studied. Verse dictionaries were written for primary school students to teach meaning of Turkish words in Arabic and Persian. One of their utilities for children is giving more prosody knowledge. We saw that the number of verse dictionaries in Classical Turkish Literature is about 30. If we look at sources we see that verse dictionaries’ commentaries are not studied. However, in Turkish Literature it is important to study verse dictionaries’ commentaries. In this paper we will try to give knowledge about one of verse dictionaries’ commentaries, Hediyyetü’l- hvan Hediyyetü’l- hvan is the commentary or verse dictionary Sübha-i S byan. It is an Turkish-Arabic verse dictionary and used as a text book at primary schools especially in 19th century. Hediyyetü’l- hvan, commentary of Sübha-i S byan was written by Mehmed Necib and it was published 6 times between 1840-1903. Writer gives text as in traditional commentary books then gives information about text grammar knowledge and adds every thing about this subject.