sarı aş

/sarɯ aʃ/

Literal translation

yellow food

Intended meaning

The meal eaten before daybreak by a person who is going to keep the fast.
  • Atam, kitap oquy ketib, juqusun ozdursa ne da sarı aşha ertterek turub qalsa, ol da eşite bolğandı ol samolötnu tawuşun.If my father, reading his book, overslept or got up too early for the pre-dawn meal, he too would hear the sound of that plane.
  • Hoja, beş künnü oraza tutala eseŋ, sarı aşha künden bir tawuq keltirib turabız, anı üsüne beş tümen ahça da berebiz, – degendile bir qawum er kişi."Khoja, if you can keep the fast for five days, we will bring you a chicken a day for the pre-dawn meal, and give you five tumen of money on top of that," said a group of men.

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