Domestic animals in turkish idioms and proverbs

Frazem je sveza riječi u kojoj jedna ili više sastavnica mijenja ili gubi svoje značenje pa njezino cjelokupno značenje ne proizlazi iz zbroja značenja svih sastavnica. Cilj ovoga rada bio je istražiti domestozoonimske frazeme i poslovice u turskom jeziku, odnosno frazeme koje u svom sastavu imaju naziv određene domaće životinje, kako bismo utvrdili što je to iz izvanjezične stvarnosti motiviralo njihov nastanak. Analizirani su frazemi sa sastavnicom u značenju 'pas', 'mačka', 'ovca', 'kokoš' i 'koza', uključujući i nazive za suprotan spol i mladunčad navedenih životinja. Uz to, usporedbom frazema sa sastavnicom domaće životinje u turskom i hrvatskom jeziku nastojali smo ustanoviti sličnosti i razlike u poimanju navedenih životinja od strane turskoga i hrvatskoga naroda. Konačno, zaključak do kojega smo došli jest da istraživanjem osobina koja dva različita naroda pridaju životinjama i načina na koji ih percipiraju mogu uputiti na to koliko i na koji način su njihove kulture međusobno slične ili različite.An idiom is a combination of words in which one or more components change or lose their meaning, so its overall meaning does not derive from the sum of the meanings of all components. The aim of this paper was to investigate domestic animal idioms and proverbs in the Turkish language, i.e. idioms that have the name of a certain domestic animal as one of their components, in order to determine what element from the extra-linguistic reality motivated their origin. Idioms with the components meaning ‘dog’, ‘cat’, ‘sheep’, ‘chicken’ and ‘goat’ were analysed, including the names for the opposite sex and the cubs of the abovementioned animals. In addition, by comparing the domestic animal idioms in Turkish and Croatian, we tried to establish similarities and differences in the perception of these animals by the Turkish and Croatian people. Finally, the conclusion we have reached is that exploring the characteristics that two different cultures attach to animals and the way they perceive them, can indicate how much and in what way their cultures are similar or different from each other