qara söz
/qara søz/
This expression has 3 meanings.
Literal translation
black word
Intended meaning
News that brings grief, especially word of a death or a misfortune.
- Tefter betleri, anaŋı sütünley, kerti sözley – aq. Alağa sen qara söz jazma.The pages of the notebook are white, like your mother's milk, like a true word. Do not write a word of grief on them.
Literal translation
black word
Intended meaning
Hollow, insincere talk offered in place of real help.
- Ekibiz da ölmeyik, qara sözden, ariw közden, tatlı tilden sora bir zat bla da boluşluqları tiymeydi. Alay meni jarlılığıma ua jarsıwçudula, – dedi Hajos.May neither of us die; apart from empty words, a kind look and a sweet tongue, their help reaches me in nothing. Still, they do grieve over my poverty, said Hajos.
Literal translation
black word
Intended meaning
Literature written in ordinary spoken language rather than in verse.
- Malqar literaturanı qara söz bla jazılğan çığarmaları jalan da Sovet vlastnı jıllarında qarıw alğandıla.The works of Balkar literature written in prose gained strength only in the years of Soviet power.
- Qara sözü da poeziyadı İbragimni.Ibragim's prose, too, is poetry.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 300