The article deals with the peculiarities of the literary interpretation of natural phenomena such as thunder, lightning, thunderbolt, thunderstorm in French and Uzbek languages and literature. They show that combustion is one of the phenomena of acting nature, that its similarities and differences are explained in dictionaries, that speech acquires synonymy, one-layerness, homonymy, and that it is interpreted in denotative and connotative senses. It is explained that the words and phrases that occur in connection with these phenomena form a separat system, each of which manifests itself in its own semantic, morphological and stylistic features.