TURKIC COGNITION IN RIDDLES IN THE CUMAN DICTIONARY

Abstract

The article deals with Turkish knowledge in the transmission of riddles in the «Codex
Cumanicus» dictionary. In the inner content and semantics of riddles, the knowledge of the Turkic peoples,
their perception of the linguistic picture of the world plays an important role. We can see the lexical and
semantic commonality of riddles used in the Kazakh language that have survived to this day. In the article,
the general knowledge of the Turkic people is explained by the heavenly world, man himself, nature,
perception of time and space. This is due to the fact that all Turks perceive the surrounding world in the
same way, and according to this, the text of the mystery is compiled according to various signs of hidden
objects. The riddles are hidden by colors, properties, signs, and the location of objects such as the moon,
stars, sky, clouds, and sun, and, accordingly, the general communication skills of the listeners and the
hidden ones make it possible to understand and accept each of them. the other is correct, and solve the
puzzle. Knowledge serves a great purpose in concealing human behavior and body parts, behavior, natural
phenomena, time, weight and spatial dimensions. The riddles in the «Codex Cumanicus» contain such lorebased themes. At the same time, it is shown that it is necessary to pay attention to criticism, quality, type,
function, movement of the object, which is the basis for creating riddles, and analyze them. Since the
«Codex Cumanicus» monument is a common relic of the Turkic peoples, it includes that knowledge is
common to the Turks of that period, and that the Turkic knowledge of that period is characteristic of today's
branches of individual Turkic languages, including the Kazakh language. The article completes a series of
studies on the «Codex Cumanicus» and mysteries.