The Concept “Hospitality” in the Kyrgyz Linguistic Worldview

The article reflects the moral and ethical value of the concept of hospitality in the Kyrgyz linguistic picture of the world. The concept “hospitality” is studied from semantic, conceptual and lingua-cultural analysis on the material of set expressions, proverbs and sayings, widely used in the Kyrgyz speech culture, and examples taken from fiction texts. Hospitality reflects the necessity of a human being to set contacts and ties with other members of the community, neighbors, and business environment. Scholars who deal with research related to cultures, national character, and values, develop the idea that hospitality has a supreme power that influences human beings and relations between people. It occupies a supreme role in the hierarchy of the national values of the Kyrgyz people. The hospitality of the Kyrgyz people is associated with a large material costs, customs and rituals that have been preserved by people. This is a custom that has penetrated into the lifestyle of people from generation to generation. The lingua-cultural descriptive analysis allows us to say that there are both – universal and nationally specific features of hospitality, reflected in behaviour and the national character of the Kyrgyz.