National and Cultural Content of the Heart Concept in the Axiological Component of the Worldview

The focus of the article is the universal Heart concept, which actively functions in many languages and is an integral component in constructing a figurative picture of the world. In the work, through the study of the Heart concept in the discourse of Russian, Kyrgyz, Dungan and Arabic languages, various semantic meanings and images evoked by it in the minds of speakers of different cultures are revealed; the national and cultural content of the concept is described; the features of the interpretation of the concept under consideration and its axiology are determined; the highest priority semantic meanings for the compared cultures are identified.