İrina POKROVSKAYA
The article is devoted to the unexplored scientific problem of the secularization of the religious vocabulary in the modern Turkish language. The lexemes with religious significance tend to get a secondary nomination in a single use, and also can be included in the metaphorical form into the scientific terms, names, idioms, proverbs, riddles, tonguetwisters. Thus, in this research there are analyzed and characterized the religious types of the religion marked lexical units and set-expressions. In order to clarify the dictionary meanings of the lexical units in this study, there is given their situational use in the different contexts.
Key words: religious vocabulary, secularization, secondary nomination, term, phraseological unit, proverb, riddle, tongue-twister.