Lexical Units Representing the Names of Objects for Cooking in “Devonu Lugotit Turk”

In Divanu lugat-it-turk vocabulary live colloquial speech of various Turkic tribes who lived in the Karakhanid state and family lexicon used in the first old Turkic literary language have significant place. In this article, the words of family lexicon related to household items names used in the process of cooking are discussed. In order to investigate these words’ formation and development stages we focused on the encyclopedic work created by the great genius of Mahmud Koshgari. The discovery of the technology of smelting iron ore by the Turkic peoples was considered an extraordinary event in the human society, and it had an important and positive significance in the radical change of the people's lifestyle and in the step forward. As a result, people had the opportunity to hunt wild animals, make and prepare weapons and armor, which are very necessary for fighting off raids, as well as tools and equipment for daily living. The names of the kitchen items used in cooking, recorded in Divanu lugat-it-turk, indicate that the national culture and household lifestyle of the ancestors was at a very high level. Keywords: Microgroup, Synonym, Live Colloquial Language, Syntagmatic Relationship, Cognate Turkic Languages.