"Awılda yaz" / "Spring in the village” (2022)

"Munçadan soñ çəy eçü" / "Tea drinking after the bathhouse" (2017)

"Urmannar arasında. Köz" / "Among the forests. Autumn" (2022)

It feels like a real privilege to live in the same era as this artist, because his work allows us not just to look at history, but to step inside it. And we’re especially fortunate that people in Tatarstan can visit his exhibitions in person. The rest of us can still follow his journey — discovering new paintings, watching his process, and supporting his art — on his Telegram channel or on Instagram.

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Music

🎵 muzıka – music
cır – song
quşımta – chorus
köy, moñ – melody, tune
tawış – sound, voice
qaytawaz – echo
səxnə – stage
bişek cırı – lullaby
yuğarı nota – high note
tübən nota – low note

🎤 cırlaw – to sing
tıñlaw – to listen
uynaw – to play (an instrument)
qabızu – to play (to put on a song)
biyü – to dance
qul çabu – to clap, applaud

🧑🏼‍🎤 cırçı – singer
başqaruçı – artist, performer
törkem – band
tamaşaçı – audience
cır avtorı – songwriter

🎧 qolaqçın – earphones, headphones

💬 Min muzıka yaratam. — I love music.
Sin nindi muzıka tıñlıysıñ? — What music do you listen to?
Minem yaratqan cırım… — My favourite song is…
Ul bik matur cırlıy. — He/She sings very beautifully.
Əydə, muzıka tıñlıyq! — Let’s listen to music!



💡 Tatar musical instruments

After the fall of Kazan in 1552, Tatar musical instruments were burned, and playing traditional instruments was strictly prohibited. The reaction to this repression was the flourishing of Tatar melismatic singing. Only the quray, a simple flute that could be easily made and hidden, survived in memory and practice, while other instruments disappeared. However, manuscripts, sketches, and ethnographic descriptions of Tatar instruments still exist, allowing researchers to reconstruct their forms and functions (as did the Tatar composer Rəşit Kəlimullin for his extensive collection of musical instruments). The loss of Tatar instruments is not only a historical consequence of post-1552 repression but also a modern state-level cultural problem that has remained unresolved for decades.

🪗🪕 Uyın qoralları –
Musical instruments 🪈

quray – reed flute
qubız – jaw harp
ğarmun – accordion
mandolina – mandolin
dəf – daf (frame drum)
saz – saz (seven-string long-necked lute)
sornay – zurna (double reed wind instrument)
dumbıra – dombra (two-/three-string long-neck lute)
göslə – gusli (string instrument)

qıl – string
sızğıç – bow (for string instruments)

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More conditionals

In our first lesson of the new year, to enrich our speech and build more nuanced and complex sentences, I’d like us to dive into further options of expressing conditional mood!


⭕️ Using the modal word ikən (real conditional)

The condition may be in the past, present, or future, but the predicate of the result clause refers only to the present or future.

Min anı təqdim itəm ikən, dimək, bu eşne alıp bara alırına ışanam. (Waqif Nurullin, “Aqqan su yulın tabar”) 
If I propose him, that means I believe that he can do the work.


⭕️ Conditions expressed by the verbal adverb in -gaç, -gəç, -qaç, -kəç (real conditional)

Xat algaç, cawap ta yazarğa kirək bula. (Ğadel Qutuy, “Tapşırılmağan xatlar”) 
When one has received a letter, one must write an answer.


⭕️ Conditions expressed by the interrogative particle -mı, -me joined to verbs in the past tense (real conditional)

Buş waqıtı buldımı östəl yanına utıra. Tərcemə itə ... (Rinat Möxəmmədiev, “Sirat küpere”) 
As soon as he has some free time, he sits down at the table. He translates …


⭕️ Conditions expressed by the past participle in -ğan, -gən, -qan, -kən in the locative or followed by xəldə

The condition can express real, potential, or unreal conditions. The conditional clause may be introduced by əgər.

Əgər uqıtqanda, öyrətkəndə, çın rəssam çıqmas idemeni?! (Əmirxan Yeniki, “Soñğı kitap”)
If they had let him study, learn, wouldn’t he then have become a real painter?


⭕️ A categorical condition can be expressed by a negative verbal adverb in -mıyça / -miçə.

The verb in the second part of the sentence is in the third-person imperative or optative and is used either exclamatorily or as a rhetorical question.

Min öyrətmiçə, kem öyrətsen sine! (Əmirxan Yeniki, “Saz çəçəge”)
If I don’t teach you, who will!


⭕️ Past Tense I + isə (used more rarely)

Baqtıñ isə, barısı da üzebeznekelər, ... (Məxmüt Xəsənov, “Yazğı acağan”) 
If you take a look, all of them are our people, …


❓Did you know all of these constructions?

Wedding costume of a young woman from a wealthy Kazan Tatar family, mid-19th century. Fully reconstructed by the project İSTƏLEK based on Karl Huhn’s 1863 watercolor “Tatar Women.”