A Persian-Turkish dictionary: Cevhere (Review-text)

The Persian-Turkish dictionary, Cevhere, for which we have completed the transliteration, is an extensive dictionary of Persian literature encompassing literary terms, arts, explanations of verses, and idioms. The purpose of compiling this dictionary was to convey the subtleties and depth of the Persian language to the prominent figures of the time and young people who were eager to learn Persian. Based on the comparisons conducted, it has been determined that the entries in the dictionary largely correspond to the couplets in the Dīvān of Hāfiz-i Shīrāzī, and that the entries derived from these couplets were explained with reference to Sūdī Bosnevī's commentary on the Dīvān of Hāfiz. In the preparation of the dictionary, a transcription was completed, and previous dictionaries were analyzed, focusing on textual dictionaries based on poetic, prose, and literary works while examining the concept of Anatolian Persian. In the first chapter, Cevhere was analyzed in all aspects, including manuscript descriptions, the textual structure of the dictionary, its linguistic and stylistic features, and the material it offers in terms of classical literary knowledge. In the second chapter, the influence of the two primary sources of the dictionary, namely the Dīvān of Hāfiz and Sūdī's commentary on this Dīvān, on Cevhere was discussed.