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Inscriptions and manuscripts belonging to the periods of the Second Turkic Khanate (632-744), the Uighur Khanate (744-840) and the Uighur Kingdom of Kocho (860-1284), and the inscriptions found in Yenisei, Mountainous Altai and Kyrgyzstan present a satisfying vocabulary of Old Turkic. The texts of this period contain many terms related to diverse fields, especially religious, social, cultural and military terms. The aim of the paper is to determinate the words in the meanings of smell, incense and censer in Old Turkic texts and to explain these words etymologically. In this study, the words in question determinated in the inscriptions and manuscripts in Orkhon Turkic and Old Uighur are taken as lexical entry; in addition, the texts of other periods of historical Turkish are cited for these lexical entries and their forms in the original texts and bilingual dictionaries of Turkic languages are also demonstrated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]