Vocabulary of Orhan Pamuk's Novel Plague Nights

Language has a very important place for people in written and oral communication. There are different forms of transmission related to language. One of them is the novel. Many successful works have been given in the process in the type of novel, which has started to be seen in Turkish literature with the effect of westernization. Orhan Pamuk, the first and only Turkish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Istanbul in 1952. The novel "Plague Nights", written by Orhan Pamuk, one of the leading names in Turkish literature and novel, has been examined in terms of vocabulary in this study. The vocabulary of the book, Plague Nights, which was examined with the support of descriptive scanning method and dictionaries, was evaluated with the help of tables. The aim of the study is to examine Orhan Pamuk's novel "Plague Nights" in terms of vocabulary. It has been determined that the book is rich in terms of vocabulary and thousands of words were taken from other languages directly or through translation. The 100 most frequently used words make up one third of the book, the conjunctions are frequently repeated, 7,261 words are used only once, the existence of words formed as a result of the combination of roots and affixes belonging to two and three different languages, the derivation of words formed by the combination of three Turkish words. are noteworthy.