kindik ana
/kindik ana/
Literal translation
navel mother
Intended meaning
The woman who cut a child's umbilical cord at birth, regarded thereafter as the child's second mother.
- Orta Aziyadan qaythan jılıbızda sabiyleni kindik anaları da bizni bla üç ay jaşağan edi bir üyde.In the year we returned from Central Asia, the children's midwife also lived with us in one house for three months.
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 272