Turkish lexicon

Title: Kamus-ı Türki (Turkish lexicon) Originally Published: Istanbul, İkdam Press, 1900 Language: Ottoman Turkish The excerpts used are from the seventh edition of the reprint (Istanbul: Çağrı Yayınları, 1999), pp i–vii. About the author Şemseddin Sami (Sami Frashëri) [1850, Frashër (present-day southeast Albania) – 1904, Istanbul]: linguist, lexicographer, novelist, and playwright. The multifarous Ottoman intellectual was born in the village of Frashër, then in the province of Yanya (Gr. Io..