Clothing names in the texts of Karahanlı Turkish

This thesis includes the clothing names in Karahanlı Turkish language. Clothing has been an crucial issue throughout human history. Each society has put effort to find out more suitable and the better clothing. Turkish civilization gave a considerably high importance to the clothing trough out history as well. By considering the "Pazarik carpet" and "the man with golden süit status" incidates that Turkish civilazition has been effective since ancient eras. Starting from Koktürk inscriptions, which are accepted as our first written document, changes and development in clothing of Turkish societies can be followed. It is possible to follow the culture of clothing in Karahanlılar period the written Works also help us a lot. In this respects, it is of great importance to examine the names of clothing in Karahanlı Turkish. The most important element that makes our study differents is the fact that each words structure and its meaning has been researched and compered with the etymology work written by foreign and domestic scientists. In the introductory part of the study the general purpose of the subject, methods and scanned texts are given. Definitions and classifications related to clothing names. The items of clothing examined were handled in items. The definitions of clothing names are made and detailed information about their coollapsing and etymology is presented and it is tired to Show how they live in contemporary dialects based on etymological words. Examples of the names of clothing (basic meaning, metaprohic etc.) are given. Which meanings were given in the text sanned for clothing names were recorced in the study and a comparison was made between these meanings.ç Some evalutions werw made in the conclusion ant the examinations made. As a result study about the names of clothing in the texts of Karahanlı Turkish was revealed. Key wors: Turkish, Karahanlı Turkish Clothing names.