CULTURAL MEANINGS OF RED COLOR IN ARABIC AND KUMYK LANGUAGES (ON THE MATERIAL OF PHRASEOLOGICAL AND PAREMIOLOGICAL UNITS)

Abstract

The color symbolism most clearly reflects the specifics of a national language picture of the world, which is associated with temperament and character of the people, its traditional way of life, background knowledge, customs, religious beliefs. These features are especially evident in phraseological units, proverbs, sayings as the most stable language units. The study of secondary meanings of color names, figurative perception, stereotypes and symbols of ethnic self-consciousness in two culturally and typologically distant Arabic and Kumyk languages allows revealing features of figurative color perception in these ethnic groups. In the Arabic linguistic picture of the world, the red symbolizes both positive and negative cultural meanings: wealth and nobility in clothing, heat, anger, rage, blood, war, etc. Kumyk ethno-linguistic symbolism fixes such symbols of the red as beauty, life, energy, warmth and blood.