The Translation of Hayatü`l - Hayevan

Hayatü'l-hayevan is supposed to be zoology book as much as muhadarat and folk book related with animals of which has synopses and translations. History, literature, sufism, hadith, medical, science, stories abaut animals anecdotes and verses form the contents of work. The sequences in the book are ordered according to animal names alphabetically. The sequences are generally long. In the work, that has a great many of specific peculiarities as for its language many animal names were expressed is the study of words and the same nemed figures were displayed in various languages. In the work, at which spelling is shown disorderly, originally many Turkish and foreign words in writing can be seen as incoherent. If it is examined as phonetics, it reflects the characteristics of Ancient Anatolian Turkish. The significant point that has emerged from the survey is that the work having valuable interest in large number of words and language peculiarity is well worth a research for our history too. IX