Abstract
The purpose of the research is to analyze the process of formation and evolution of zoonymic units on the materials of the Kazakh, Turkish and Uzbek languages.Linguistic, lexicographic and comparative methods were used to achieve the research goals.The results of the paper determined that the animal kingdom is a source of multiple metaphorical usage, since linguistic similarities have been established between the entities of the world and animals.For this reason, when comparing the Kazakh, Turkish and Uzbek languages, zoonyms have become an extremely important lexical component of the language picture of the world in the metaphorical field.Nouns denoting representatives of the fauna constituted an important part of the phraseological code presented in the fixed and lexicalized constructions of the Turkic world picture.Acquiring a new meaning, lexical units were not a semantic sum of language components, but their transformation using zoonyms.