Colors in Bashkir proverbs and idioms

Throughout history, Turks have dispersed to various geographies and interacted with different cultures and languages, adding new concepts to their cultures and new expressions to their languages. Turkic culture and innovations in the Turkic language have also affected color expressions. Bashkir, one of the living Turkic dialects, has combined both the beliefs and cultural concepts from the old Turkic culture and the beliefs and cultures that it has come together with over time. In this context, it is aimed to examine the meanings of the color expressions used by the Bashkirs throughout history in oral cultural works and the colors they added to their own cultures from the cultures they interacted with. "Başqort halıq Meqelderé hem Eytémderé Hüzlégé" (Bashkir Proverbs and Idioms Dictionary), "Basqortsa - Russa Meqelder hem Eytémder Hüzlégé" (Bashkir-Russian Proverbs and Idioms), "Baskurt-Russian Proverbs and Idioms", In these works, proverbs and idioms, which are the treasures of Bashkir culture, were scanned by scanning proverbs and idioms containing color concepts. 241 examples of color names were identified. The examples of proverbs and idioms determined by the tagging method were transcribed into the Latin alphabet and transferred to Turkish. The frequency table of the color expressions obtained from the samples was prepared. In addition to these data, the origin of the color names in Bashkir and the naming of colors according to cultural developments were examined.