başsız qatın
/baʃsɯz qatɯn/
Literal translation
headless woman
Intended meaning
A woman left without a husband — a widow or a woman whose husband is gone.
- Başsız tişirıwğa öksüz sabiyni ösdürgen qalay qıyındı!How hard it is for a husbandless woman to raise an orphaned child!
- Tawda teŋlerim bla men, baylağa, biylege çabıwulla etib, malların öksüzlege, başsız qatınlağa üleşib, köl keŋdiriwçü edik.In the mountains my comrades and I would raid the rich and the princes, share out their livestock among orphans and husbandless women, and take heart from it.
Variants
- başsız qalğan qatın
- başsız tişirıw
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 99