Abstract
The present research aims at identifying the concepts that structure the category of time in Kazakhidioms, which have a reference to temporality, to parameters of duration, speed, age, and events. Alinguistic analysis of Kazakh idioms showed that time is conceptualized as a cyclical process wheredays turn into nights, and autumns turn into winters, etc. Also, a life span is traditionally divided intothree phases: birth, life, and death; moreover, the analysis showed that concepts of time are representedthrough temporally situated events, which are culturally motivated, and also through the parameters ofage which are ethnographically stipulated