Аңдатпа

Proverbs and sayings are a cultural bridge that connects the past and the present of people, allowing us to learn about the way of history and life experience of a certain people. We can see that there are proverbs and sayings that are common among related peoples, but also have their own variants. In the present article, the promotion of a healthy lifestyle by Kazakh and Turkish proverbs and sayings related to health and illness ​​is comparatively considered in the cultural context. We can see that the past and the present are connected, no matter how distant the two related peoples are from each other due to historical reasons. This is the cumulative function of proverbs and saying continuing the past of the people from generation to generation. The proverbs and sayings presented in our article were collected from the 65th volume of the book "Babalar sozi (Words of Wisdom of Ancestors)" in the Kazakh language, from the book "Khalyk Danaligi (Words of Wisdom of People)" by Abdulali Kaidar, and the proverbs in the Turkish language were taken from the electronic version of the dictionary "Atasozder and Fraseologi (Words of Wisdom of Ancestors and Phraseology)" of the Turkish Language Organization (TDK Türk Dil Kurumu Atasözler ve deyimler sözlüğü https ://sozluk.gov.tr) and Uğur Gürsu's (Uğur Gürsu https://tez.yok.gov.tr) doctoral dissertation. Proverbs in the Kazakh and Turkish languages ​​were considered and grouped by themes and their meanings were revealed. The considered proverbs were analyzed using the descriptive, comparative methods. Proverbs related to health and illness were divided into the following thematic groups:

- proverbs and sayings similar in meaning and composition-structure

- proverbs and sayings with a slight variation in their components despite with similar content

- proverbs of different structure, composition, but similar content in both peoples

-proverbs and sayings that have characteristic features of both peoples

Key words: proverbs and sayings, cultural and cognitive, folklore, names of health
and diseases, Kazakh language, Turkish language, folk education, paremiology