by Yashar Kemal
Elham: a sura (chapter) of the Koran
Ezan: the call to prayer by a muezzin from a minaret
Hamal: (in the Middle East) a porter of heavy loads
Hamam: a Turkish bath
Han: a large commercial building
Kazaska: a Caucasian dance
Kokoreç: sheep’s or lamb’s tripe broiled on spits
Lahmacun: a kind of meat pizza
Laz: a people of the Black Sea coast
Lezginka: a Caucasian dance
Lodos: the name for a special south wind in Istanbul, derived from Notus, the ancient Greek south-wind deity
Menekşe: violet (the flower)
Merhaba: greetings!
Mimber: a pulpit in a mosque
Mount Kaf: a mythical mountain thought to encircle the world and to be the home of the Phoenix
Pastirma: meat pressed and dried with garlic and spices
Raki: an aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink
Red Crescent: the equivalent organization to the Red Cross in Turkey
Simit: a ring-shaped special kind of bread
Usta: master craftsman
Vali: the governor of a province
Yazma: hand-printed cloth
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Copyright © Yashar Kemal 1978
English translation copyright © Thilda Kemal 1985
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First published in Great Britain in English translation by Collins Harvill in 1985
Originally published in Turkey as Deniz Kūstū by Milliyet Yayinlari, Istanbul in 1978
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