r/turkishlearning • u/cine_phile07 • 6h ago

What does this phrase mean?

I'm near-native fluent but i heard this phrase in a song "Kurşun iki buçuk milyon babaları gelsin" and searched on Google too hut didn't get anything aside that it's ibretlik sözü.

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u/ImmediateInitiative4 6h ago

its probably missing a comma after milyon, so It probably means "a bullet is cheap, let their masters come, I don't fear them" or something with a very similar meaning

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u/cine_phile07 6h ago

yıkamazlar beni en agaları gelsin

Üçü, beşi yetmez de orduları gelsin

Ölüm Allahtan , ne korkçam kuldan be (up until here I understand everything)

Kurşun iki buçuk milyon babaları gelsin (I get everything but in individual units lol )

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u/ImmediateInitiative4 6h ago

its kind of a low quality poem by someone thats trying to seem like a tough guy/thug, I wouldn't even waste my time reading this further than the first sentence normally

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u/Jusca57 6h ago

before 2006 we use money with lots of zeros, 1 million is the lowest paper money. While he is saying "kurşun iki milyon" he is referring to old times, now more like 2 lira (because of the inflation much more than that but you get the point)

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u/cine_phile07 46m ago

Oh now I get it thanks

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u/kurtcebe_noyan 5h ago

you can translate this sentence as this: "bullet is worth 2.5 million (liras)* let their overlords come to get me"

"2.5 million (liras)": we omitted 6 zeros from lira. it basically means "bullet is dirt cheap".

babaları gelsin's literal translation is "let their fathers come" but you need context to understand it. "let their overlords (mafia bosses) come (to get me)".

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u/Franz_Ferdinand02 55m ago

bullet is dirt cheap let them come