qara som

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• Köse köp sağış etdi, som bla qara somğa ne zat alıb aşayım dep, aqılı sırtha-tüzge da jetdi.Kyose thought long and hard about what he could buy to eat for a rouble and twenty-five kopecks, and his mind ranged over ridge and plain.
• Jüz miŋden atlap qara som ahça tazir saldıq [Ramazğa].We laid a fine of more than a hundred thousand in twenty-five-kopeck money [on Ramaz].

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• Har qaramıŋ – qara som.Every glance of yours is worth its weight in gold.
• Alay a, qaysı ese da qarıwuna köre qara som joya edi degenley, men da, hıysabıma köre, bir tuluq nartüh bereme, – dedi Fayruz."Still, as they say that each spends dearly according to his means, I too, by my own reckoning, will give a sack of maize," said Fayruz.