Abstract. The article is devoted to the analysis of scientific opinions on the substantiations of the color field in the Arabic language on the basis of comments made in the work “المعجم الوسيط” (“Perfect explanatory dictionary”). The author tried to scientifically analyze the views expressed by scientists in the article on what is substantiality, the nature of the phenomenon of substantiality in general linguistics. Consequently, the words related to the color field also refer to the qualities of their roots and their analogues, their variety of meanings, as a scientific source, use “المعجم الوسيط” (“Perfect explanatory dictionary”). The volume of the examples given and the literature used suggest that the phenomenon of substantiation in Arabic, described in the article, is an important contribution to the disclosure of the morphological and syntactic essence of words, especially those that relate to the color field.