A Turkish language relic from the 13th century: Kitabü'l-Ef'al ( Text-analyis-index)

The end of the 9th century had a major cultural, religious and linguistic impact on Turkish history. With this impact, which coincided with the period of Islamization and conquest, the Turks accepted the Islamic religion, abandoned the writing system(s) they had previously used and adopted the Arabic script. Learning this language became a necessity in order to understand the Islamic religion and to ensure trade and coexistence with the Arab and Persian peoples. Therefore, language guides, dictionaries, interlinear Qur'an translations, literary and historical works have become the philological wealth of Turkish in terms of language studies. According to available data, the first Arabic-Turkish work written in Arabic script is Dîvânu Lugâti t-Türk, written by Kashgarlı Mahmud in the 10th century, during the Karakhanids period. Kitabü l-Ef'al in the French National Archives is another example of an Arabic-Persian-Turkish interlinear dictionary. The manuscript, which is thought to have been written in the Khwarezm region, was written in the 13th century. The relic, in which Turkish equivalents of Arabic verbs are given, contains phonetic-morphological examples that can be a source for Turkology research. In this study, based on Arabic dictionaries, Old Turkish sources and grammatical studies, Kitabü l￾Ef'al will be discussed phonetically, morphologically and lexically and the transcription and index of the text will be given as the last part of the study.