sal bashıç
/sal basxɯtʃ/
Literal translation
corpse ladder
Intended meaning
The wooden bier-ladder on which a dead body is carried to the graveyard.
- «Ağaçnı alğışı» degen nazmuda ağaç jer adamına bergen zatla sanaladıla: … örge örlegende, tayanırğa – mujura, ölgende ua – sal bashıç bla kör qaŋala.In the poem "The Blessing of the Tree" the things wood gives to the people of the earth are listed: … a staff to lean on when climbing upward, and, when one dies, the funeral bier and the grave boards.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 386