Azerbaijani poet of the XVII century Govsi Tabrizi played a major role in the establishment and development of Azerbaijani literary language. Govsi Tabrizi is a poet with unique creative search, original language and style. The poems by Govsi Tabrizi written in Azerbaijan language attracts the attention of the reserchers by the richness of meaning, structure, folk language elements and the use of different literary expressive means the language. Govsi Tabrizi enriched Azerbaijani literary language by means of literary expressions of folk language. It was one of his invaluable merits in the history of Azerbaijani culture. His poems are of great importance for revealing lexical-semantic and grammatical peculiarities of literary language of that period. It is noted, that poems by Govsi Tabrizi give rich material to study the vocabulary and lexical features of the Azerbaijani literary language in the XVII century. National and borrowed words, archaisms used in the poems of the poet, lexical-semantic and stylistic peculiarities of different language groups (homonymous, synonyms, antonyms) are also analyzed in the article.

Anahtar Kelimeler
XVII century, Govsi Tabrizi, Azerbaijani literary language, lexical peculiarities.