qara tanığan
/qara tanɯʁan/
Literal translation
who recognizes the black (marks)
Intended meaning
Able to read and write.
- Patçahnı zamanında qabartılılanı arasında qara tanığanla 1,9 protsent, malqarlılada ua 0,9 protsent edi. Ol bolğanı da – aqsüekleden, bay-biyleden.In the tsar's time, among the Kabardians those who could read and write were 1.9 percent, and among the Balkars 0.9 percent. And even those were from the nobles, from the rich and the princes.
Variants
- qara tanıy bilgen
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 301