Languagle #5: Kazakh
Бір жеңнен қол шығар, бір жағадан бас шығар
Bir zhennen qol shyghar, bir zhaghadan bas shyghar
"Let the hands come out of one sleeve and the heads out of one collar."
What it means
A proverb about unity: it pictures a whole people fitting through one sleeve and one collar, meaning standing and acting together as a single body rather than as separate individuals, especially in hard times.
What kind of saying it is
Oral tradition. In Kazakh, a мақал. Passed down by word of mouth. Sayings like this have no single author.
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