ANTHROPOCOMPONENT "GUL" IN TURKIC PERSONAL NAMES

The article deals with the linguistic and cultural features of simple and compound personal names with the phytonymic component gul “flower” borrowed from the Persian language in the Turkic languages. In accordance with the localization of the element gul "rose, flower", all complex personal names that have this anthropoformant are divided into three groups: 1) names in which the anthropoformant is fixed in preposition, 2) names in which the anthropocomponent is fixed in postposition, and 3) names , in which the gul element is used both in the preposition and in the postposition of the compound name. An extensive system of semantic relations presented in the structure of complex personal names indicates that the gul is a symbol of beauty, grace and tenderness.