şeyit ölük

/ʃejit ølyk/

Literal translation

martyr corpse

A person who dies free of sin, especially one who dies during the month of Ramadan, and is therefore held to have died in a blessed state.

Ma-a, şeyit ölükle dep allay ölüklege aytadıla, – dedi Maljey."There now, it is dead people like that whom they call шейит ёлюкле," said Maldzhey.

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