qara adam

/qara adam/

Literal translation

black person (person of black work)

Intended meaning

An ordinary working person who does menial physical labour and has little education or knowledge of the wider world.
  • Qara tanığanlıq qara adamdan uzaq edi [patçahlıqnı zamanında].Literacy was far removed from the common man [in the time of the tsardom].
  • 1905 jıldağı revolütsiyanı haparı taw ellege jetgende, qara adamla azatlıqnı üsünden sağışları erib ketmezliklerin aŋılağan edile.When news of the 1905 revolution reached the mountain villages, the common folk understood that their thoughts of freedom would not melt away.

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