kir suwun çaçarğa

/kir suwun tʃatʃarʁa/

Literal translation

to scatter someone's washing water

To give alms and food in memory of someone who has died.

Toqalnı anası, kesini jarlılığın da unutmay, söz qoşdu: «Birewnü kir suwun çaçhan zamanda, meni da unutma, men da öksüzle saqlap turğan jarlı tişirıwma. Bir-birde, aş-zekat bere kelgen zamanda, meni üsüm bla ozub ketedile...».Tokal's mother, not forgetting her own poverty either, put in a word: "When you give out alms for someone who has died, don't forget me either — I too am a poor woman left waiting with orphans. Sometimes, when food and alms are being handed out, they pass me by..."

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