boluş üy
/boluʃ yj/
Literal translation
help house
Intended meaning
The house of neighbours or relatives where a newly married man lodges apart from his wife's household until the customary period of ritual shyness before her kin has passed.
- Baysoltannı jaŋız erke ulanı Mıyıqların ariw, usta buradı. Keçelikde otowuna jürüydü, Kündüz bolsa, boluş üyde turadı.Baysoltan's only pampered son twirls his moustache handsomely and skilfully. At night he goes to her room; by day he stays in the house where the groom lodges.
- Biz seni ataŋı boluş üyü edik. Ataŋ köp tuz-gırjınıbıznı aşağandı.We were the house where your father lodged as a young husband. Your father ate a great deal of our salt and bread.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 139