Türklük Bilimi Araştırmaları

Öz

Woman in Turkish societies are among the categories examined in many disciplines such as sociology, psychology, religion, history, language and literature. One of the main reasons for this is that the concept of gender affects order in society and is directly related to social culture. This relationship has obviously created various fields of study and ‘woman’ has been among the frequently studied subjects. Accordingly, woman in Turkish languages and the terminology related to woman have been analyzed, and many studies have been conducted on the subject covering every linguistic period of Turkish. In this way, the reflections of the female gender category on language have been shown and the perception of woman in the relevant periods has been tried to be revealed. When we look at the studies, it is seen that many of them are only studies on vocabulary in line with this goal and do not include the usage of words in other language periods. Therefore, it has been observed that such studies are mostly composed of compiling and listing the elements related to woman in the texts of the period, and for this reason, there are few studies on the semantic changes or origins of words. In this study, in Dîvânu Lugâti't-Turk, which is important in the history of Turkish language as the first dictionary of Turkish, the names given according to the class position of woman will be discussed, and by showing the equivalents of these names in the Orkhun and Uyghur periods covering the Old Turkish branch, the meaning changes and formation stages of the identified words in the language periods of the Old Turkish field will be tried to be shown. The appearance of each identified word in other branches of Old Turkic and differentiation of meaning, if any, will be emphasized.