suw alışmaq
/suw alɯʃmaq/
Literal translation
to exchange water
Intended meaning
A summer game in which people by the waterside splash water over one another as a plea to God for rain.
- Qızıwluqğa tözalmay, tiyreni ınnası, sabiyleni jıyıb, suw boyununda prinç kak bla sıylap, suw alışmaq oynatadıla.Unable to bear the heat, the grandmother of the neighbourhood gathers the children, treats them to rice porridge by the water, and has them play suu alyshmaq.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 413