Abstract
The Enumeration of the Sciences is one of the practically significant treatises written by Abu Nasr al-Farabi, the translation and study of which is relevant and significant to this day, includes almost all fields of that time. The classification of sciences is a part of the manuscript fund of al-Farabi and the medieval encyclopedic heritage, which covers the multifaceted views of the scholar, including natural, social and humanitarian sciences. The key word in the work is the Arabic word ilm, which, depending on the context, is translated into Kazakh as ğylym, ilim, bilım, bilu; into Russian as nauka, znanie; Turkish as ilim and bilim. The purpose of the research is to study the reflection of the Arabic word ilm in translations into Kazakh, Turkish and Russian. The translation of al-Farabi’s treatise into three languages became the main research material, while the original text in Arabic – additional. The research was based on the comparative method. The results of this study – the main meanings of the word ilm in translations into Kazakh, Turkish and Russian languages have been determined; additional meanings as a part of a word combination were considered; the frequency of the word ilm usage in translated text was determined.