Study of Religious and Ceremonial Vocabulary as a Linguocultural Concept

This article examines the linguocultural features of religious and ritual vocabulary in Abdulla Qodiriy’s novel “O‘tkan kunlar” and Mark E. Reese’s English translation “Bygone Days”. The study aims to identify the nominative, linguocultural and pragmatic characteristics of religious realia in the literary text and to analyze the ways in which these culture-specific units are rendered in English. Religious realia are interpreted not merely as lexical units denoting religious concepts, but as complex linguistic-cultural units incorporating national, historical, religious and associative components. The study focuses on such lexical units as namoz, tahorat, azon, duo, madrasa and mulla. Through a comparative analysis of the original and translated texts, the article examines translation strategies including transliteration, functional equivalence, explicitation, commentary and generalization. The findings demonstrate that religious and ritual vocabulary functions in the novel as a set of linguocultural concepts reflecting the religious worldview, historical memory, social relations and national-cultural experience of the Uzbek people.