EXOTIC ORIENTALISMS IN A. PUSHKIN’S WORKS AND HIS ROLE IN BORROWING THE ORIENTAL VOCABULARY IN THE RUSSIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE OF THE 19-20TH CENTURIES

Abstract

The analysis of a contribution of A. Pushkin to the oriental lexical fund of the Russian literary language in the 19-20th centuries has been carried out according to the premise that borrowings originally come to language as eхotisms. It is established that the poet’s works contributed to the assimilation of the following Turkish words: Allah, delibash, Kumyk words: uzden, churec, Georgian dukhan of the Turkish or Azerbaijani origin and Kabardian narzan. The prevalence among oriental borrowings from Turkic languages of the Caucasus is explained by their traditional use as the main means of cross-ethnic communication of the people of the region.