tıpır taş

/tɯpɯr taʃ/

This expression has 2 meanings.

Intended meaning

The stones set around the four sides of a hearth.

Anı [Haji-osmannı] eki közü tıpır taşha jütü qarap qaldıla.His [Hadji-Osman's] two eyes stayed fixed sharply on the hearthstones.

hearth stone

One's native land; the house and place where one's parents lived.

Ömürleden beri jaşap kelgen jurtubuznu, tıpır taşıbıznı qoyuğuz da, qayrı ese da bir qalabalağa ketigiz degenligiŋ tüyülmüdü, Epej?! – dep sordu Soltan."Is it not that you are telling us to abandon the homeland we have lived in for centuries, our ancestral hearth, and go off to some turmoil or other, Epezh?!" — asked Soltan.
Tıpır taşım jaşaydı jüregimde, Jaşarıqdı nazmumda, tilegimde.My ancestral home lives in my heart; it will live on in my verse and in my prayer.

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