jalğan patçah
/dʒalʁan pattʃax/
Literal translation
false tsar
Intended meaning
A person installed for a limited time to hold the throne in place of the rightful monarch; a stand-in head of state.
- Ullu patçah ketgendi... anı orununa salınŋan Kerenskiyni atına bizni malçı tawlula «jalğan patçah» deydile.The great tsar is gone... our mountain herdsmen call Kerensky, who was put in his place, a "false tsar".
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 171