This article examines the semantic features of phraseological units in the Uzbek language from the perspective of modern linguistics and linguodidactics. Phraseological units represent one of the most expressive and culturally marked layers of the lexical system, reflecting not only stable figurative meanings but also the national worldview, value orientations, and communicative traditions of the people. The purpose of the study is to identify the main semantic properties of Uzbek phraseological units, explain the mechanisms of their meaning formation, and determine their functional role in speech and text. The research is based on descriptive, semantic, comparative, and contextual analysis methods. The article discusses the relationship between direct and figurative meaning, semantic integrity, reinterpreted nomination, emotional-expressive coloring, polysemy, synonymy, antonymy, and national-cultural specificity within Uzbek phraseology. Special attention is paid to the interaction between phraseological meaning and lexical meaning, as well as to the contextual transformation of phraseological units in artistic and everyday discourse. The findings show that the semantics of phraseological units in Uzbek is characterized by complexity, figurativeness, stability, and cultural depth. Phraseological units function as semantic wholes whose meanings are not reducible to the sum of their components, and this feature distinguishes them from free word combinations. The study concludes that phraseological semantics occupies an important place in the system of the Uzbek language and requires comprehensive analysis in theoretical linguistics, lexicography, stylistics, and language teaching methodology.

Phraseological units, semantics, figurative meaning

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