Nouns and nominals in Kutadgu Bilig

Kutadgu Bilig is a comprehensive piece consisting of 6645 couplets written by Yusuf Has Hacib. In addition to being known as a political and admonition book, Kutadgu Bilig is one of the most important works of Turkish language history in terms of reflecting Turkish thought system. Names have been the subject of many studies on the historical sources of the Turkish language but rarely on Kutadgu Bilig. In such studies, the researchers classified the words they identified from the texts according to their functions, their position in the sentence or the suffixes they took, and created an index by listing these words. The purpose of this study is to identify and examine the nouns in Kutadgu Bilig, which is known as the first literary work of its period. The nouns identified in this study were classified according to their meaning, type or part of speech. In our thesis, consisting of eleven sections, the words are classified according to their general meanings rather than specific semantic meanings in the context. At the end of the research, all the words in the noun category were given numerical values indicating the usage frequency and an index was created.