IDIOMS WITH NEGATIVE HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS IN THE KUMYK LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article considers semantic features of idioms, expressing negative characteristics of the person in modern Kumyk. In the Kumyk phraseological picture of the world, negative assessment is received by a person characterized by lazy, chatty, greed, cruelty, vile, cowardice, tendency to gossip, etc. Idioms containing a negative connotation of a person’s character rarely relate to the gender of the referent. Most of the expressions of the semantic group in question refer to the spoken style. A significant part of the idioms, which negatively characterize a person, is characterized by a despicable, damning emotional shade of connotation. The semantic group of idioms under study is represented by verb and substance structural types with considerable superiority of verb structures.