SUMMARY
Türkçe renk adlari açisindan çok zengin bir dildir. Ancak bu zenginlige ragmen renk adlarinin dil bilimsel islevselligi ve özel ad vermedeki yeri üzerine çalismalar oldukça yeni ve yetersizdir. Bu çalisma, renk adlarinin ad bilimindeki yeri ve Türkçe özel ad vermedeki islevini ortaya koymaya çalismaktadir. Bu çalismada ilk önce harita ve sözlük gibi temel kaynaklardan özel adlar taranmis, daha sonra bu özel adlarda kullanilan renk adlarinin siklik ve içerik analizi yapilmistir. Türkçe özel ad vermede, toplam 17 farkli renk adinin kullanildigi görülmüstür. Dilin çevrim alaninda daha uzun süredir var olan, kara, ak, gök ve sari gibi kadim renk adlari daha fazla tercih edilmistir. Bu renk adlari, daha eski tarihlerden bu yana kullanilageldiklerinden daha genis bir kavram alanina sahiptir. Farkli özel ad türlerinde bazi renk adlari, kavram alanlarindaki anlamlara göre daha çok tercih edilebilmektedir. Kisi adlari, kadim renk adlarinin yaninda daha yeni renk adlarinin da tercih edildigi dinamik bir alan olarak gözlemlenmistir. Bu çalisma sonuç olarak Türkçe renk adlarinin çok zenginligini ve özel ad vermede dil bilimsel olarak islevselligini ortaya koymustur.Coining proper names through colour terms in TurkishAbstractTurkish is rich in colour terms. Despite the wealth of such terms in Turkish, studies into their linguistic functions and roles in coining and giving proper names are relatively new and inadequate. This study aims to explore the place of colour terms in onomastics and their function in giving proper names in Turkish. This study firstly created a corpus of proper names with colour names from a collection of important sources like maps and dictionaries, which was then followed by an analysis of frequency and content. This study documented 17 different colour terms used in Turkish proper names. Of these, older colour terms such as kara (black), ak (white), gök (blue), and sari (yellow) are used relatively more frequently. It is apparent that these long existing colour terms have larger conceptual fields than those relatively newer colour terms. It was also observed that different types of proper names may attract different colour terms simply due to different meanings they hold in their conceptual field. It was also observed that antrophonomy, with a more vibrant use of relatively newer colour terms in naming human beings as well as a well employment of the older terms, constitutes a more dynamic domain. This study has documented the wealth and linguistic functionality of Turkish colour terms in coining proper names.Keywords: colour terms; proper names; onomastique