Abstract
A WORD WITH THE INSTRUMENTAL CASE SUFFIX IN KUTADGU BİLİG: 'ÖZÜN'
Kutadgu Bilig is the first major work of the Islamic Turkish literature of Karakhanid period. The work was written in couplets, each couplet rhymed within itself in masnavi style. The couplets between 6521 and 6645 at the end of the work are rhymed in ghazal style, and the 173 quatrains scattered throughout the work are rhymed in mani style. Kutadgu Bilig's meter has troubled researchers for a long time. The work, written in the aruz, feûlün feûlün, feûlün, feûl pattern, which is the Shahnameh meter, also carries the rhythm of Turkish folk poetry with its 6+5 syllable harmony. The use of rhyme very little in the work and the use of half rhyme rather than full and rich rhyme are also features that display the phenomenon.
This paper is about the word 'özün', which is used at the end of the lines in Kutadgu Bilig, mostly in a half-rhyme form. In the paper, it will be discussed whether Yusuf Has Hâcib used the word 'özün' to fill the lines or to provide harmony/rhyme, and Arat's translation will be a guide for this.. In the paper, the ambiguities in the translations of the couplets in question will be emphasized, not ignoring that Arat's translation in 1959, in which he stated that he did not resort to exegesis instead of translation, was an excellent translation and rendered to prose.
Keywords
Kutadgu Bilig, özün, word, reflexive pronoun, meter, rhyme.