Old Anatolian Turkish

Following texts are excerpts of Qabus-Nama, taken from Turan Fikret's work: "Old Anatolian Turkish: Syntactic Structure" (1996):[7]

• bizüm delilümüz: "Our proofs."
• devletlü gişiler: "Fortunate ones."
• zinhār zinhār: "Never."
• pīrlikde yigitlenmek rüsvāylıqdur: "It is a shame to act like a young man in old age."
• bulardan artanı beytü’l mālda qoyalar: "They should put inpublic treasury that which remained from them."
• birgün bu ilçiyile oturur iken Qısri Büzürcmihre sorar: "One day when he was sitting with this [foreign] ambassador, Chosroes asked Büzürcmihr."
• Kelām-ı mecīd: "The word of the most glorious (God), the Qoran."
• dar'ül-harb: "Countries outside of the domain of Islam."
• Taŋrı aŋa raḥmet itmez: "God does not forgive him."
• aġırlaŋ aṭaŋuzı anaŋuzı egerçi kāfirse daqı: "Respect your parents even if they are unbelievers."
• Ne qul kim alam āzāz olsun: "Every slave that I would buy should be freed"
• ve cāhil gişileri gişi sanma ve hünersüzleri bilür sayma: "And do not consider the ignorant ones the [real] men, and [do not consider] the untalented ones the knowledgeable ones."
• zinhār işüŋi ṭanışmaqdan ʿārlanma: "Beware, and do neverbe ashamed of learning your job."
• sen yalan söyleyesi gişi degülsin: "You are not person whowould lie."
• artuq zaḥmet çeküp artuq ṭamaʿ eyleme: "Do not suffertrouble too much being too greedy."
• eger sen Taŋrıya muṭīʿ olmayup bunlardan muṭīʿlıq isteyüp bunlara zaḥmet virür iseŋ Taŋrılıq daʿvīsin itmiş olursın: "If you yourself do not obey God and ask these people for obedience [for you] and oppres them, then you are considered assomeone pretending to be God."
• yaʿnī bir şaḫsuŋ bir sarayda naṣībi olsa andan ol naṣībi ṣatsa ne qadardur bāyiʿyā müşterī bilmese Ebū Ḥanīfeden üç rivāyetdür: "In other words, if someone has a share in a palace and then if he sells it without either seller or buyer knowing the exact value of it, then there are three traditions according to Abû Ḥanîfe."
• benüm dostlarum beni ġāyet sevdüklerinden baŋa ʿaybum dimezler idi ve düşmānlarum benüm ʿaybumı ḫalqa söylerler idi: "Because my friends liked me very much they did not say my shortcomings to me, [but] my enemies told the peoplemy shortcomings."
• ben eyittim sübḥān Allāh qırq iki yaşında gişi neçün şöyle içekim nerdübāŋ ayaġın nice urasın bilmeye düşe ve dün buçuġında neçün şöyle yörüye kim şunuŋ gibi vāqıʿaya uġraya: "I said ‘O God why would a person of forty-two drink so much that he can not judge how to put this feet on the steps of a ladder, so he falls, and also why would he walk like that in the middle of the night that he experiences such an incident."

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