On “Türkçe-Bulgarca Muhtasar Lügat” Published in 1913

Abstract

In 1913 when the Balkan Wars ended many Ottoman Turkish soldiers fell prisoners to the Bulgarians. In order to facilitate the communication of these prisoners with the Bulgarians, a Brief Turkish-Bulgarian Dictionary was prepared. This small dictionary was published by the Hurşid Press in Filibe (Plovdiv) with the Arabic alphabet. All of the Turkish and Bulgarian words in it were written with the Arabic letters. The writer of the dictionary is unknown. It is possible that the dictionary were prepared by the employers of the Hurşid Press. In this article we aim to transcript the Turkish and Bulgarian words taking place in the Turkish - Bulgarian Dictionary prepared in Filibe (Plovdiv) and also to write the Bulgarian words in Cyrilic alphabet given by this dictionary. To compare the Bulgarian words given by the dictionary with the current Bulgarian language is our other object. Also we try to study the Turkish and their Bulgarian equivalents given by the Turkish-Bulgarian Dictionary in order to appreciate the lexical contain of the dictionary and to classify the words thematically