CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES OF THE ETYMOLOGY AND SEMANTICS OF ARABIC BORROWINGS, FUNCTIONING IN THE MODERN RUSSION LANGUAGE
The article is devoted to problems of entering Russian language the vocabulary of Arab origin, which are considered on the example of Arabism “alcohol”. The study aims to analyze complexities in adaptation of Arabic lexical units in the Russian language system as grounds for the possible discrepancies in approaches to the etymology of Arabic loan-words in existing Russian language dictionaries and to present the author's conception of etymology and semantics of the analyzed word mark in Russian language. The article proves the hypothesis of the existence in Arabic of the two etymological sources (two etymons) for polysemic Russian word “alcohol”.