PECULARITIES OF THE NAMING UNITS OF BIRDS AND ANIMALS IN “THE ARABIAN NIGHTS”
The fairy tales "Arabian Nights", like any other work of a similar nature, is replete with magical creatures that help or complicate the life of the protagonist. As a rule, ordinary birds and animals play the role of wonderful, fairy-tale characters, however, endowed with speech and thought, their so-called "ordinariness" sharply changes its polarity and then the reader will never know where the plot will turn. In this article, there was made an attempt to consider and to analyze the role of birds and animals the reader could meet in this monument of the Arabic literature.