Kur'an-ı Kerim'in Türkçe Tercümelerinde Besmele

Becauce basmalah is considered as the beginning of every action in the Turkish culture, it is also given much importance to its writing in the translations of the Quran. According to the documents we have, the first translation of the basmalah belongs to the period of Karahanlı Turkish. In the other historical periods of Turkish translation of basmalah is made. Some scholars says that because basmalah can not be fully translated to another language, it should be left in the original Arabic form. On the other hand, some of scholars have translated basmalah as other versus in the Quran. These are given as annotated or in the form of word for word translation. In some Quran translations, both of the the Arabic original shape of basmalah and its Turkish translation are written together. Basmalah consists of four elements as “b’ism”, “Allah”, “rahman” and “rahim”. “B’ism” has been translated as atı birle adıyıla, ism‐i şerifiyle, adına, ismiyle. The translation of “Allah” is Ugan, İḍi, Tañrı, Tañrı Te’âlâ, Allâh-ı Te’âlâ. For “Rahman” the words bagırsak, bagışlaguçı, üküş rahmetlig, rûzî bergen, ulug bahşişlıg, yarlıkagan, merhametli, esirgeyen, esirgeyici are used. “Rahim” is given as bagışlaguçı, ulaşu yarlıkagan, yarlıkaguçı, rahmeti lâzım, raḥmat ḳılıcı, rahmet edici, bağışlayıcı in the Turkish translations of the Quran. As the protected verb başla-, oku-, tilavete başhas been selected. In the some examples of basmalah translations, “Allah”, “rahman” ve “rahim” remains originally. In this study how the basmalah takes place in the Turkish translations of the Quran will be emphasized and it will be focused on the basmalah translations.