A Turkic-Russian Dictionary in the Miscellany Compiled by the Monk Prokhor Kolomniatin in 1668
Journal: Труды Отдела древнерусской литературы
Year: 2020

The article presents an analysis and publication of a previously unknown Turkic dictionary compiled by a Russian captive in Crimea in the middle of the 17th century. Besides lexical units reflecting the state of the Crimean Tatar language in the time of Ottoman Turkish influence, the dictionary contains various historical, geographical and ethnographical notes, descriptions of religious practices of Crimean dwellers, local legends, and apocrypha. The text has been discovered by N. V. Savelieva i