ANALYSIS OF EXAMPLES OF LEXICAL EQUIVALENTS IN PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS AZERBAIJANI, RUSSIAN AND TALYSH LANGUAGES

Abstract

The objective of the article is to identify patterns of lexical synonymy in phraseological units of the Azerbaijani, Russian, and Talysh languages. Phraseology reflects the history, mentality, traditions, and customs of each people, as well as universal human values. This factor has become the reason of phraseological synonymy development, which reflects the semantic correspondence of concepts in different languages, the attitude of subject to object, ethical norms, and the specifics of religious beliefs. At the same time, in phraseological units often lexical synonymy is observed. In such cases the words included in phraseological unit in one language are represented by their exact lexical equivalents in another one. Such correspondences are more common than is commonly believed. In this article the examples of exact lexical synonymy of phraseological units in Azerbaijani, Russian, and Talysh language are represented. The article concludes that the phraseological units of each language reflect the mentality, peculiarities of ethnic thinking, and culture of the people. There are phraseological units that, despite belonging to different languages, are expressed in another language with exact translated equivalents. In phraseology, the concept of synonymy is not limited to semantic correspondence, exact lexical correspondences are quite common.