Significant aspects of conveying religious realias (based on Arabic translations of A.P. Chekhov’s stories)

transferance of religious realities in the process of translating literary texts from Russian into Arabic presents significant difficulties due to the differences between the two linguistic cultures under consideration, as well as due to differences in the religions professed, which predetermine certain peculiarities of the members of society worldview. Translating works of classical Russian literature into the Arabic language, it is necessary to take into account the system of values shared by the representatives of Russian and Arabic linguocultures. Errors and gaps that arise in the process of translating religious realias are explained by the translator’s attempt to use primarily the strategy of domestication, which leads to the complete loss of national-cultural specificity in Russian-language literary texts, as well as an attempt to replace Christian concepts and terms with their Islamic correlates.

linguoculture, Russian linguoculture, Arabic linguoculture, Christian value system, Islamic value system, religious realities, translation of religious realities, strategy of domestication, strategy of foreignization