A Linguistic evaluation of Russian translations of Quranic combinations derived from the verb Akhaza

The translation history of the Holy Quran into Russian is more than 300 years old and, regarding the growth and spread of Islam in Russia and the role of Russian translations of the Holy Quran in this regard, it is necessary to evaluate the Russian translations of the Holy Quran. The present study aims to evaluate three translations by Ignati Krachkovsky, Valeria Prokhorova, and Nouri Osmanov, among the available Russian translations. All three translators have translated the Holy Quran into Russian without using an intermediate language directly from Arabic. This study focuses on the translation of four lexical combinations from the verb Akhaza in the Holy Quran. According to the points explained in the school of cognitive semantics, words have a flexible meaning i.e. words have different meanings in combination with other words and, this is true for the words derived from "Akhaza". Therefore, the analysis of the combinations in which this verb is used will be a good criterion for evaluating the level of mastery and skill of the translator in the source language. Accordingly, after presenting a brief history of the translation of the Holy Quran into Russian, the translation of Quranic compositions of the verb "Akhaza" has been validated in the three aforementioned translations. Finally, after evaluating the translations in each case, the suggested Russian equivalents are also provided.