This article examines the active and passive use of human body parts in proverbs belonging to different language systems and outlines the scope of their study. It analyzes in what aspects proverbs formed on the basis of somatisms have been investigated in Uzbek, English, Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Russian, as well as their significance. Furthermore, it is emphasized that in the process of studying proverbs with somatic components from a linguo-cognitive perspective, such issues as concept formation, the emergence of mental structures, and the development of cognitive models should be explored in depth.

Proverbs, concept, metaphor

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