This article analyzes the semantics and contextual use of the most
frequent phraseological units with the ethnonym component "Turk", "Turkish" in the
Serbian language with Russian parallels. It is in them that the results of the five-century
coexistence of two peoples - the Serbs and the Ottomans - are clearly traced in the
historical context, namely the facts of the influence of Turkish culture on the South
Slavic, which, as a result, formed the stereotypical ideas of the Serbs about the Turks,
reflected in the mentality and modern language, in particular - in phraseology.