Arabic Completes in Ottoman Turkish

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The dictionary meaning of words can sometimes be insufficient to understand a language. Therefore, the sentence word order, the function and those changes take place to the words have also to be known. As we know, in every language, it’s not just the words, the parts of speech are needed to express ideas. It’s from these parts of speech that sentences are constructed. One of the parts of speech is noun modifier used in sentence construction. In language teaching, despite knowing the language’s grammatical structure, we need to have information about the rules of that language which affected the mother language. This is because languages contact and affect one another and have similarities and differences with each other, such contact and effect can be seen between Turkish and Arabic languages. The families and groups of both of these two languages are different, thus, more differences are to be found than similarities. The Ottomans’ language age is more than four centuries, it was the language of writing from the 16^th century to the 20^th century. During this time, the Ottomans’ language had a lot of impacts on Turkish language that can be observed everywhere. In this paper, we discuss the Arabic modifier in Ottomans’ language and present its most prominent differences with Turkish language. We also tried to briefly explain some of these modifiers that have been used as terms and terminologies in Turkish