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culture and language
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14 Dec 2006 Thu 10:13 pm |
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Quoting susie k: We call Nanny on mother's side, and Granny on Dad's side! |
Thats just in your family Susie - not the definitive words. People also use Nanna, Gran and Grandma for either mum or dad's mum.
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15 Dec 2006 Fri 10:15 am |
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Quoting qdemir: We have the following expression: Güle güle kullan / kullanın: When someone buys a thing, such as new clothes, a pair of shoes or a car his friends say “Güle güle kullan / kullanın†It indicates the speaker’s wish that use it with joy. Sometimes “Hayırlı olsun†is said in such condition. The reply for both expressions is “Teşekkür ederimâ€.
Do you have a similiar expression in your mother tongue in the sense of "güle güle kullan" |
In Romanian, when sb buys new clothes or pair of shoes we say "sa il porti sanatos"(for man) and "sa il porti sanatoasa"(for women), literarly meaning "may you wear it. healthy"/ "may you be healty while wearing it".
When sb buys a car or a house, we say "sa o stapanesti sanatos/sanatoasa", lit. meanining "may you own it healthy/ may you be healty while owning it"
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15 Dec 2006 Fri 10:19 am |
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Quoting qdemir: When someone we know has a baby one of the expressions we say is: Allah analı babalı büyütsün (May God let him grow with his/her parents). |
In Romanian we say "sa va traiasca", meaning "may he/she live/grow"
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15 Dec 2006 Fri 11:54 am |
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Romanian expressions:
when two people get married we wish them "casa de piatra" (lit.= house of stone), meaning we wish them a long lasting marriage
when sb is going fishing, we say "fir intins" (li.= stretched fishing rod), meaning many fishes may come to the fishing rod
when there are many important things which need to be solved and sb spends the time on doing other, superficial things, we say to such a person: "tara arde si baba se piaptana" (lit.= the country is on fire and the old lady is combing her hair)
as each language has its own, colorful expressions, I look forward to reading your selections
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15 Dec 2006 Fri 06:47 pm |
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here is an old saying for marriage
"Allah bir yastıkta kocatsın" (God age you with one pillow = seems so funny in english  ) which approximately means;
"may God grow you old always together"
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| 35. |
20 Dec 2006 Wed 08:05 am |
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Quote:
rena
for example 'baklava' (in rus it sounds like 'pahlava') or helva (in rus 'halva'; though i'm not sure if it is originally turkish or not :-S ) |
hallo : baklava and helva/halva - there are typical arabian / oriental words. you will find this also in farsi or arabian, also in indian words. turkish war written I think till 1920 arround in arabic letters. some words in the new turkish you can find also today ... after atatürk' s reform was born a new turkish and written by latin letters , but some ottomanian words "swipped" in the modern turkish. that you have in russia kind of this sweets for example has his roots from the time formerly ( sowjewtskaya sojusa) if a lot of muslim countries, turmenistan, aserbaidshan and and and were a part of russia...( and so also with them a little bit arabian culture...)
for example helva in india its the same: this was coming from persian ( old iran) long time ago...
regards
turkistalk
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