I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

phraseology, stable set, standard, Orientalism, meat and rice dishes, South Slavic languages

The article examines South Slavic set similes of the union type, in which the names of meat and rice dishes of oriental origin serve as a figurative basis. These names entered the languages of some Balkan peoples along with the realities of national oriental cuisine during the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The purpose of this work is to identify the phraseological potential of these food products in the corpus of stable similes of southern Slavia, the area of functioning of phraseological units with Ottomanisms of the stated theme, and to show their commonality and ethnocultural uniqueness. The novelty lies in the fact that comparatives with these components have not yet been the subject of a special description. The material was taken from phraseological dictionaries and other sources. The methods used were cultural and descriptive, component and comparative, structural and semantic modeling. The culinary realities discussed are known to the Slavs of the Balkans, but they are ethnically specific as images of similes: pacha has become a standard for simile among the Bulgarians, while sarma is a standard for simile among the Serbs. Among the ethnically related Bulgarians and Macedonians, basturma is a symbol of excessive thinness. In general, it can be summarized that the analyzed comparatisms, despite the commonality of national culinary traditions that has been formed over several centuries, demonstrate not universality, but ethnographic specificity of motivational ideas.