FUNCTIONS OF FOLK MEDICAL VOCABULARY IN THE NOVEL OF M. AUEZOV “ABAI ZHOLY” (THE PATH OF ABAI)

Abstract

The purpose of the article under study is to determine the functions of folk medical vocabulary in the novel, a comparative analysis of the ways of its translation in English and Russian.
Scientist K. Gabitkhanuly gives the following quote about the relationship of language and the culture from the work "Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories" of the American scholar, lexicographer Funk John Wilfred: «Vocabulary of language is like a mirror which reflects the life of ethnicity». Therefore, we can say that the folk medical vocabulary is directly related to the history of the nation, the development of material culture of any ethnicity.