qara qış
/qara qɯʃ/
Collocation
Literal translation
black winter
Intended meaning
A bitterly cold winter with little snowfall, reckoned as the twenty-five days before and the twenty-five days after the depth of winter.
- Qışnı ekinçi jarımı qara qış boldu.The second half of the winter turned into a black winter.
Sources
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- Zharashueva 2017 · Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary