The concept of equivalence, which expresses the relation between the source text and the target text in the translation process, can be defined as finding the closest equivalence of the source text to the target text. The equivalence between the two languages must be good so that the translated text can taste the same on the target side. Many novels have been translated into Turkish from Arabic literature. At first, many pieces of Arabic literature were not originally Turkic, but a second language, the English translation. After Naguib Mahfouz received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, his interest in reading his works in Turkey has increased considerably. al-Cairo-al-Jadida, one of the social realistic novels that reveal the situation of the Egyptian people at that time, is referred to as Cairo, This translation has been transferred from Arabic to Turkish. In this study, the famous novelist Naguib Mahfouz of al-Cairo-al-Jadida of Egyptian novel was examined in terms of equivalence of the language games in Turkish translation. In addition to the meaningful, syntactic, linguistic and stylistic dimension, the proverb, which is the main material of a fancy language that affects texts formally, focuses on the translation of language games such as idiom, metaphor, personification and comparison and interpreted in terms of translation equivalence. Analyzes made within the scope of translation criticism of selected sample paragraphs from the romans show that the translator has produced a translation that is literally equivalent in terms of linguistic, syntactic and semantic, preserving the form and content of the source text considerably. Turkish readers are able to understand the language games actually found in Arabic in a similar way