taş salırğa
/taʃ salɯrʁa/
This expression has 2 meanings.
Literal translation
to lay a stone
Intended meaning
To establish oneself in a place and put up a dwelling there.
- Nart uyada taş salınŋanlı, mında bıllay qış körgenme derik adam hazna çıqmaz.Since the stone was laid at Nart Uya, hardly a soul will step forward to say he has seen a winter like this here.
- Ata jurtha qaytıwnu qanatlı quwançı, eski jurtda jaŋı taş salıw, jaşaw tiriçilik… Jılla bla kelgen sınaw.The winged joy of returning to the fatherland, a new stone laid in the old homeland, life and its labours… Experience that came with the years.
Literal translation
to lay stones
Intended meaning
To foretell someone's fate by divination — reading cards or casting out forty-one grains.
- Kel awruwŋu alayım, kel. Men seni izlep turama. İy, awruŋ, elde köplege da salasa, maŋa da bir taş salsaŋ, bek ırazı eterik ediŋ.Come, let me take your sickness on myself, come. I have been looking for you. Oh, bless you, you tell fortunes for so many in the village — if you cast the stones for me too, you would make me very glad.
- Da tohta, – dep, ol barmaqların ol taş salıwçu qatınlaça jaydı."Now wait," he said, and spread his fingers out like those women who cast the stones.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 435
- Къарачай тилни фразеология сёзлюгю (1992), p. 218