Lexicography, Ottoman-Turkish, in Europe - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Turan, Fikret
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Leiden
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Brill
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Ottoman-Turkish lexicography in Europe first appears in the tenth/sixteenth century. Earlier works on the Ottomans had appeared in the ninth/fifteenth century in Europe, and these works, in addition to providing information on the cultural, political and social aspects of the Ottoman State, touched upon basic features of Ottoman Turkish grammar and presented limited widely used vocabularies in the Latin alphabet. The travelogue of Arnold von Harff (d. 1505), a German pilgrim to the Holy Land, presented about fifty Turkish words about eating, drinking, and greeting. The number