Open AccessTHE HISTORY OF BORROWINGS FROM ARABIC INTO RUSSIAN
Author(s) -
Nikita V. Morozov
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
teoretičeskaâ i prikladnaâ lingvistika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2410-7190
DOI - 10.22250/2410-7190_2018_4_2_69_78
Subject(s) - german , turkish , trace (psycholinguistics) , linguistics , arabic , politics , history , subject (documents) , political science , computer science , law , philosophy , library science
Lexical level of a language is represented by authentic words and a number of loanwords from other languages. The present article focuses upon the Arabisms and the history of their appearance in the Russian language. The material for the study were etymological dictionaries. The result of the analysis enabled to compile a list of the indirect Arabisms consisting of 41 units for which it was possible to trace the stages of their introduction into Russian; these units were further sorted into subject groups. It was found that that introduction had occurred via Turkish, Latin, French, English, German, Spanish, Italian and Polish reflecting economic, political and cultural interaction of Russia with those countries. The sources of a number of Arabisms are still arguable and need further research.