ETHNOSPECIFIC VOCABULARY IN RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE ISLAMIC DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article is presents analysis of non-equivalent vocabulary related to the religious culture of Islam. Today, religious vocabulary is beginning to occupy a significant place in modern communication. It can be grouped into specific thematic groups: names related to clothing, appearance, rituals, types of prayers, religious objects, etc. The specificity of the Islamic religious vocabulary is the representation of religious concepts and terms that are not represented in the Russian language picture of the world. Religious Islamic vocabulary occupies a significant place in the lexical system of the language, penetrating into the most diverse spheres of life in the form of designations of many cultural concepts of the linguistic picture of the world. The study collected the most active components of religious practice. The material is taken from oral sermons of religious ministers and articles of the spiritual and educational newspaper “As-Salam”. The corpus of the studied material amounted to more than 200 units, the article provides an analysis of the most popular and ethnospecific lexemes.