One of the works among prose stories and tales in the oriental literature such as “Kelile and Dimne” and “One Thousand and One Nights” which give a moral lesson is Marzubân-nâme. The work, which was written in the Tabari dialect of Persian language in the 10th century and was translated into Persian in the 13th century, is claimed to be written by Marzuban bin Rustem, who was one of the rulers of the Tabaristan region located in the north of Iran. Although the exact date of compilation of the work is not known, it is believed to have been written between 1375-1380. Marzubân-nâme, which was translated from Persian into Turkish by Şeyhoğlu Sadru’d-din Mustafa upon the orders of Germiyan ruler Muhammed Beyoğlu Süleyman Shah in the second half of the 14th century, is accepted as one of the works of Old Anatolian Turkish period due to the century when it was translated. Zeynep Korkmaz, who brought the translation of Marzubân-nâme into daylight and introduced it to the scientific world, is also the author of the most comprehensive work conducted on the work so far. Taking the translation made by Şeyhoğlu as a basis, Korkmaz transcribed the work into today’s Turkish and carried out phonological and morphological studies. In the present study, an examination through sampling method was conducted on the text transcribed by Korkmaz under the headings of sentence types and sentence elements from a syntactic perspective. Phrases and structures named as utterances which fall into the field of paragraph/text examination were not included in the examination.

Marzubân-nâme Translation, Syntax, Sentence