Metaphoric interpretation of colors employed in Nobel Quran

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Metaphor is pervasive in many fields of life, which is considered a vivid method of picturing a given idea in a set of words.

Quran is full of metaphoric images which convey ideas that are not deducible of their metaphorical frames.

Colors are used in Noble Quran to express various meanings of the color itself.

Colors when used in Quran they conceptualize like death, disease, piousness, goodness, etc.

Building a given conceptual metaphor about a given metaphor requires the connotations that the people have about it, for example, people think that the color 'white' is a symbol of goodness or purity, while the 'black' color is a symbol of sadness and fatigue.

Analyzing metaphor properly needs a context of situation and deconstructing it in order to be able to depict its metaphoric meaning.

This study aims and limits to analyze Noble verses according to Larson's Model (1984: 248) where he divides each metaphor into four types .A gloss of noble verses containing colors was cited down to support the process of analysis.

The significant factor in analyzing such Noble verses and grasping their intended meanings is to understand the metaphorical expressions and explore their component elements which includes the target and domain areas and map their meanings such as to be interpreted according to the context of situation in which the metaphorical expression is uttered.

The paper concludes that Qur'anic references to color may be positive as with green or negative as with black