November 22, 2006

Learning Greek from Tuhfet'ul Ussak

Mavi Boncuk |

"Tuhfet'ul Ussak-A Present for Children" a Tanzimat era book by Fevzi(*) teaches Greek vocabulary in a poetic form to the Turks:

Nam-i Hudadır Teos, ademe de antropos
Dervise der asketis, evliya adı ayos

(The name of The God is Theos, and man is antropos
Dervish is askhetis, and evliya is agios)

(*)Fevzi, Tuhfet’ul Ussak, from LEVEND, Agâh Sırrı (1943), Divan Edebiyati, Istanbul, p. 637.

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