A GENERAL VIEW TO OUR TRADITIONAL LEXIOCOGRAPHY AND ARABIC-TURKISH VERSE DICTIONARY BY EDlRNE MUFTUSU FEVZl EFENDl: TUHFE-i FEVZI

Dictionary is a kind of fundamental book which gathers vocabularies of a language in a specific order. with general meaning in islamic culture and literature, writing of dictionary in following years to begining of first century in current era was begun for understanding of holy quran and hadeth better. in this frame, it was given importance to write verse dictionary in addition to prose ones which was written for different aims and forms in arabic, persian and turkish literatures. in foundations of traditional education, verse dictionary which had been memorized by beginner students- is fundamental and educational book which gives many information about vocabulary, grammer and prosody. edirne muftusu fevzi efendi -who is one of the most important charachters in last era of our literary and cultural life- is a renowned person with a lot of works in literary area in addition to his capacity of religious disciplines. in arabic, turkish and persian works which he wrote and expounded, one of the works which shows writer's knowladge of language and literature is arabic- turkish verse dictionary tuhfe-i fevzi which we are publishing its text. it is thought that this bulky dictionary composed of 1048 couplets will supply with a modest contribution to litterateur of verse dictionary.