qara məni basınca mən qaranı basım

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		гара мәни басынҹа мән гараны басым
Abjad

Etymology

Literally, ~ "it is better that I push the ghost before the ghost pushes me"; compare qara (“scary hallucination; ghost; nightmare, especially one associated with sleep paralysis”, literally “black”) used with the verb basmaq (“to push; to attack”) to convey the sense "to have a scary hallucination" and the noun qarabasma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡɑˈrɑ mæˈni bɑˈsɯnd͡ʒɑ mæn ɡɑrɑˈnɯ bɑˈsɯm]

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Proverb

qara məni basınca mən qaranı basım

1. attack is the best form of defence