Poems, proverbs and stories passed between generations.
Ottoman Turks' Poetry We have tried to give the chief Turkish poets in somewhat chronological order, beginning with their first poet Ashiq, who died in 1332 and whose very name is forgotten, since…
N A S R A D D I N H O D J A -Nasraddin Hodja miniature taken from a XVII th century hand written book- This is the story about wit and wisdom of a man who has been dead for hundreds of years. But he…
J O K E S F R O M N A S R A D D I N H O D J A EAT MY FUR COAT The Hodja was invited out to dinner. He went in his old clothes and nobody was interested in him. When he found a few minutes to spare,…
J O K E S F R O M N A S R A D D I N H O D J A HEAVY COAT One night the people heard a frightful noise from the Hodja's house. They asked in the morning: "What was that noise?" "Oh, my coat fell…
Proverbs Proverbs, succinct and pithy saying in general use, expressing commonly held ideas and beliefs. Proverbs, are part of every spoken language and are related to such other forms of folk…
A white day sheds light, and a black day sheds darkness. if !supportEmptyParas? endif? "Arabic is a language, Persian is a sweetmeat; Turkish is an art." Persian proverb "It has been an axiom that…
Whoever the heart loves, she is the beauty. I do not know if all the proverbs created by the people of Turkey exist in Turkish spoken in other nations, but the proverbs of Turkish-speaking people…
White clothes soon get dirty. In trying to understand a proverb the peculiarities of its language should be taken into consideration. This will explain many points that might appear at first obscure…
A DICTIONARY OF TURKISH PROVERBS "The comparative paremiology (study of proverbs) shows that the nations of the world have much in common, despite the frontiers and distances which divide them, and…
Proverbs enjoy a long oral history. Written literature containing proverbs goes back to Sumerian inscriptions which gave rules of grammar in proverbial form and to ancient Egyptian collections dating…
Alliteration, the repetition of like or similar consonant sounds, takes place with the "t" and similar "m/n" sounds. Assonance, the repetition of vowel sounds, is found in 'i" (phonetically, both the…
