The article offers a contrastive analysis of religious Arabisms in Spanish and Uzbek. The material comprises the pairs Qur’on – Corán, oyat – aleya, ramazon – ramadán, sura – sura and imom – imam, together with the Spanish homonyms imán and sura. Drawing on the Diccionario de la lengua española and the Explanatory Dictionary of the Uzbek Language, the study compares the core religious meanings of the pairs and distinguishes homonymous forms by etymology and context. The analysis shows that the core religious meanings of the five pairs coincide, while differences arise in numbered references, in the distinction between the name of the month and the religious practice, in the place of a title within a religious tradition, and in homonymy. Semantic correspondence and the need for a translator’s note are identified as two independent criteria. The author proposes a model for deciding whether a note is required according to text genre and readers’ background, and offers practical recommendations for translators and compilers of bilingual dictionaries. No statistical conclusions on frequency or audience are drawn; this is left for future corpus-based research.

religious Arabisms, Spanish, Uzbek, Quran, ayah, surah, Ramadan, imam, homonymy, translator’s note.

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