Özet:

Substances absorb some amount of light and reflect some amount. This absorption and reflection ratio produces colors and causes the eye to be perceived in different ways. Everything we see in our daily lives has a color. Colors also play an important role in vocabulary. The use of color names is not limited to this, but it also meets many objects, special names and various abstract concepts. These characteristics of colors are frequently used in the old Turkish culture environment and today. In this study, color names in Azerbaijan Turkic were determined and classified according to their structure. Then detected idioms and proverbs contain color Turkish meanings given name; Proverbs and idioms have been examined for the feature of abstract meaning gained by colours.