ABOUT THE WORDS OF EUPHEMISM IN DİVANÜ LÛGATİ’T-TÜRK

There have been lots of written works for depicting Turkish language, history and culture. Divanü Lûgati’t-Türk which was written at 1073/1074 is one of the most important work of Turkish language, literature and culture. The translation of Divanü Lûgati’t-Türk, which is one of the works of Karahanlı Turkish period, was published by Besim Atalay in 1939 years. The Divanü Lûgati’t-Türk which is the first source about the Turkish world’s literature, language, cultural, social situation in the 11th century gives us very important and original know-ledges for Turcology researching. Semantics is an are of science that studies the meanings of a language using the diachronic and synchronic methods. It is well known that there are few studies on semantics in Turkish. So, there are many semantic issues which must be examined synchronicly and diachronicly in Turkish. Semantic change, may be described as one word becoming to have a expression of a different concept in time, or its making its meaning range narrower or wider. Euphemism means that an inoffensive expression or a word is used in place of blunt, harsh, indecent one that is considered to be upsetting or embarrassing. This situations is very widespread in hunting and animal names, death and names of illness, sexuality and physiological process and names of some shameful things. In this article, the words of euphemism in vocabulary of Divanü Lûgati’t-Türk will be determined and examined. Some of these words is defined as ‘hapax legomenon’ in vocabulary of Divanü Lûgati’t-Türk.