ABOUT THE MEANING OF THE WORD OF “AKSATMAK/TO LIMP”

Ottoman poetry had continued its existence in its specific aesthetic understanding and its tradition for centuries; in most cases, it is difficult to reach the coast and to interpret where dictionaries and resources are insufficient. The poets of this ocean had once written poems that best reflect our culture, civilization and tradition, and had left a wonderful legacy to the next generations. In the course of time, the dynamics of this culture and tradition, the language, have lost a variety of meanings, and even though the words exist in literary texts, they have not found a place in the dictionaries. This kind of words and concepts in literary texts, which are expected to be revealed, are essential for understanding the text on a small-scale and through the poet to understand and make sence to the culture of the society on a large-scale. The word “aksatmak/to limp” which attracted our attention in a verse of Derzi-zade Ulv？ [d. 1585] led us to other texts on the suspicion that the poet could use the word in a different way from its present sense and justified a few examples that emerged as a result of the scanning of many literary texts. The examples that we found in ？？？k ？elebi's Me？a？irü’？-？u？ara, in Nev’？-zade Atay？'s Sohbetü’l-Ebkar, in the Sehab？ and Kara Fazl？ Diwan, “aksatmak” that is used in terms of to humiliate, to insult, to make upside down, to defeat, to beat apart from to limp, to make stumble, to drop. In this article, the word “aksatmak/to limp” which is now lost its usage daily Turkish and the only source that is found in the 17. Yüzy？l Türk？esi ve S？z Varl？？？. In the literary works the meaning of the word to humiliate, to insult, to make upside down, to defeat, to beat apart from its usual usage to limp, to make stumble, to drop of try to evaluate the use of poems