ıshatına bersinle
/ɯsxatɯna bersinle/
Literal translation
let them give it away as his memorial alms
Intended meaning
Said as a curse: a wish that someone should die, so that what they owned is handed out in charity for their soul.
- Malların ıshatına bere tursunla!... Ol Dawlet da aşıqmasın, – dedi anası."Let them go on giving his livestock away as alms for his soul!... And let that Daulet not be in any hurry either," said his mother.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 507