Türkiyat Mecmuası

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Öleng which
means “song, folk song” in historical and etymological dictionaries, primarily
discussed in care of etymological and semantic in this paper, and its different
forms and meanings in the historical and contemporary Turkish dialects has also
been presented. Fuad Köprülü had
discussed firtsly that öleng is a literary term. Fuad Köprülü had inserted some verses from the field of East Turkish
that are in Nawai’s Mizan al-Awzan
and in Babur’s Tractate
of Aruz, “tuyug” called in the third part
of his article. And also he had dealed with ölengs. 

In Ali Shir Nawai’s İskendername the chorused way of saying
which has been finished within word of “öleng” and has been placed so to say ıt
is reminding that has been sung songs for goddess of the water  “Ölenk”, is indicate the word of “song, ballad” when considered in relation to
the meaning in the form of “öleng” suggests that expanding the sense of space
in a type name.

In
addition to, species of this poetry used as a literary term in Eastern Turkic
field that is unique. The first time its properties mentioned in the copies in
Paris and Tehran of Babur’s Tractate
of Aruz. In thiş study, the lines which are in these copies included and these were compared with contemporary Turkic
fields’s ölengs; so discussed about
evaluations of etymological and semantic of the word and Köprülü’s some of the deficiencies about “öleng” that are be
derived from just read in Paris based on copies of copies has been resolved
with Tehran.