yasın oqurğa

/jasɯn oqurʁa/

Literal translation

to read the Yasin

Intended meaning

To recite the prescribed prayer — the Ya-Sin sura — over someone who has died.
  • Zawurnu ölügü jatadı. Osman haji kelmegeni sebepli, anı sohtalarından birleri kelib, tapçannı bir qıyırına çögüb, iniçke, sabiy awaz bla yasın oquydu.Zaur's body lies there. Since Osman the hajji has not come, one of his pupils arrives, crouches at one end of the bier, and recites the Yasin in a thin, childlike voice.

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