Keyword: «cultural features»
This article presents a brief description of the national and cultural features of the processes of creating metaphors in Russian and Arabic. The study makes it possible to study and describe the images of the world in different languages, presented with the help of such a universal trope as a metaphor. The examples given in this work demonstrate how the metaphor transforms and fills the semantics of the word with new colors, providing a linguistic personality with great opportunities for constructing bright, attention-grabbing, expressive expressions with which it can vividly reflect the culture, life and traditional values of its people. , convey the subtlest shades of national and cultural meanings and the linguistic picture of the world of their ethnic group.