Food & drink

What's on the table — including the dishes the Karachay are famous for.

• aş food, a meal
• gırjın bread
• hıçın the famous stuffed flatbread
• et meat
• süt milk
• ayran ayran — the salted yogurt drink
• bışlaq cheese
• bal honey
• şeker sugar
• tuz salt
• jaw butter / fat
• şorpa soup
• çay tea
• arpa barley
• jumurtha egg
• un flour
• buday wheat
• nartüh corn, maize
• gardoş potato
• sohan onion
• sarsmaq garlic
• qobusta cabbage
• pomidor tomato
• qudoru bean
• hawun melon
• jüzüm grape
• jemiş fruit, berries
• kofe coffee
• sok juice

aş (food) is where aşarğa (to eat) comes from — eating is literally "food-ing".