THE ARABISMS IN PROVERBS OF THE LEZGIN LANGUAGE

Abstract

In the article the analysis of Arabic loan-words and their place in proverbs of the Lezgin language. Arabisms in proverbs and sayings of the Lezgian language have not been subjected to scientific research until now. There is a wide range of Arabic words in Lezgin paremias. It is known that oral folk art reflects the historical experience of the people and their spiritual world. Folklore works also represent the verbal art of the Lezgian people, the culture of folk speech and its language features. The language of folklore works has always been of great interest not only to folklorists and literary critics, but also to linguists. The work notes that among folklore works, paremias occupy a special place, since they are used in conversation for figurative and convincing expression of thought. In semantic respect, the arabisms in proverbs of the Lezgin find a large variety. There are various reasons for the Lezgian language to borrow arabisms. According to their morphological and syntactic features, paremias with arabisms are divided into many varieties. Arabic borrowings are most often used as nouns and various verb forms. These words, acquired by the Lezgin language, were subjected to various phonetic and morphological changes, following the norms and laws of the literary Lezgin language.