oba taşı siŋilder
/oba taʃɯ siŋilder/
Literal translation
the grave-mound stone will sink
Intended meaning
Of a dead person: to find no rest even in the world to come, because of a wrong done to those left behind.
- Jolda bara, Kümüş: «Bu jarlı öksüzlege igi qaramasaŋ, ahıratda töre bar ese, halal qonşumu, Halimat haripni, oba taşı siŋilder», – dey edi.As they went along the road Kümüsh kept saying: «If you do not look after these poor orphans well, then if there is judgement in the hereafter, the grave-stone of my honest neighbour, poor Halimat, will sink.»
Variants
- oba taşı qımıldar
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 368