doggy-style dowry:
unable to face the nose
she paid through


A little bit of Turkish: Burun (Nose)
Kılavuzu karga olanın burnu boktan çıkmaz.
If your guided by crows you'll end up with your nose in shit.

Kupa Ası (Ace of Cups)
A little bit of Turkish: Sirke (vinegar) Bal (Honey) Sinek (Fly, the suit of Clubs in a pack of french suited playing cards) Kupa (Cup, Goblet, Trophy; the suit of Hearts in a pack of french suited playing cards)

Bir fıçı sirkeden ziyade bir damla bal ile sinek tutulur. 
One drop of honey is worth more than a vat of of vinegar to catch a fly.


The image of the Ace of Cups above is from a 1910 pack of tarot cards produced by Pamela Colman Smith for Arthur Edward Waite. For a modern reproduction I recommend the Pamela Colman Smith Commemorative Set.

Para Beşlisi (Five of Coins)
A little bit of Turkish: Olmak (to be) Etmek (to do, make; to be worth, to amount to) -sız (meaning 'without' ) -mez (suffix of negation)

beş parasız - lit. without five pennies, fig. penniless
beş paralık olmak/etmek - lit. to be/to do five pennies worth, fig. to expose shameful secrets
beş para etmez - lit. not worth five pennies, fig. of something that is trashy, worthless.


The image of the Five of Coins above is from a 1910 pack of tarot cards produced by Pamela Colman Smith for Arthur Edward Waite. For a modern reproduction I recommend the Pamela Colman Smith Commemorative Set.

Encased within the barber's cape my eyes fall heavy beneath the soothing stroke of brush and fingers and I am immersed in the vibrations of the buzzing clippers, the swift snip and snap of scissors tap-tapping against the teeth of comb, the puppetry of hand and head as he shapes me for the scrape of the razor, the intimate trimming of eyebrows, ears and nose. A flick of flame and smell of burning hair lift me out of my submersion. "Tamam?" he asks. "Çok iyi" I reply, "çok iyi".

clipped peeks

of the barber's bum

in the mirror

A little bit of Turkish: Berber (Barber) Ucun (the tip, end) -dan (suffix meaning from) Az (Little)


Ucundan azıcık
At the barber's "just a trim'.


lit. 'a little from the tip.'


Outside of the barbershop the phrase may cause some hilarity, not sure why, but I suspect it has something to do with circumcision.

Para Onlusu (Ten of Coins/Money)
A little bit of Turkish: Mutluluk (Happiness, Well-being, Bliss) Zenginlik (Wealth, Prosperity, Riches) Aptal (Fool, Stupid, Idiot, Dumb) Rüyalar (Dreams) Bilge (Wise, Sage)

Zenginlik aptal rüyalar; Bilge bir adam, mutluluk.
A fool dreams of wealth; a wise man of happiness.


An alternative name for the Ten of Coins in Turkish:
Tılsımlar Onlusus - Ten of Talismans
The term 'tılsımlar' (talismans) is used on some RWS decks (and its clones) as a translation of 'pentacles'.


The image of the Ten of Pentacles above is from a 1910 pack of tarot cards produced by Pamela Colman Smith for Arthur Edward Waite. For a modern reproduction I recommend the Pamela Colman Smith Commemorative Set.

Dragons

My dragon’s woken up again,

and grown very big.

It’s riding on the hand-wagon

slick with oil and spit —

a genie from its bottle moans

do it do it DO IT!

My dragon’s woken up again,

and eager to dig: 

to bury stones like dogs with bones

(marrow sucked — flesh ripped).

In blood and dung the bottle, warmed,

is cracked: the genie… SPLIT.

A little bit of (rude) Turkish: Ejderha (lit. Dragon, fig. slang for Penis) Şişe (lit.Bottle, fig. slang for Anus)
El arabası (wheelbarrow, trolley, hand wagon/cart - 'to ride the hand-wagon' slang for masturbation) Fondip (lit. from the bottom, in drinking games, to drink a shot in one go; in sexual slang 'do it' (f**k me))

Benim ejderham, yine uyandı var

ve çok büyük büyüdü. 

O el arabası biniyor 

yağlı ve şiş ile kaygan - 

onun şişeden bir cin inliyor 

fondip fondip fondip!


A little bit more turkish: Şiş (Spit, Swollen, Skewer) Yağ (Oil) 
Inlemek (to moan) Yine (Again)

Kupa Dokuzlusu (Nine of Cups)
A little bit of Turkish: Iyi (Good, Fine, Well) Olmak (to be)

The latin suit of cups may be related to the french suit of hearts, and thus the nine of cups to the nine of hearts, known as the wish card in cartomancy. 

Iyi diyelim iyi olalım

"Wish well, be well." May be related to ideas of affirmation, positive thinking.

lit. Let's say well (good, fine) and be well. Used as a response to the enquiry 'nasılsınız?' ('how are you?') and akin to the English response 'mustn't grumble'.

The image of the Nine of Cups above is from a 1910 pack of tarot cards produced by Pamela Colman Smith for Arthur Edward Waite. For a modern reproduction I recommend the Pamela Colman Smith Commemorative Set.

A little bit of Turkish: Taş (Stone) Baş (Head) Yarmak (to split)

Her taş, baş yarmaz.
Not every stone will split your head.


The image of The Tower above is from a 1910 pack of tarot cards produced by Pamela Colman Smith for Arthur Edward Waite. For a modern reproduction I recommend the Pamela Colman Smith Commemorative Set.

A little bit of Turkish: Yeni (New) Dost (Friend) Şarap (Wine) Eski (Old)

Her şeyin yenisi, dostun, şarabın eskisi.
Everything is good when new, but old friends and wine are best.


The image of Temperance above is from a 1910 pack of tarot cards produced by Pamela Colman Smith for Arthur Edward Waite. For a modern reproduction I recommend the Pamela Colman Smith Commemorative Set.

A little bit of Turkish: Cami (Mosque) Imam (Islamic spiritual and temporal leader; Islamic scholar; one who leads prayers at Islamic gatherings) Bilmek (to know) Okur (Reader)

Cami ne kadar büyük olsa imam bildiğini okur.
However big the congregation, the reader tells the same story.*
Turkish Proverb


*lit. '...mosque, the imam reads what he knows.'


The image of The High Priestess above is from a 1910 pack of tarot cards produced by Pamela Colman Smith for Arthur Edward Waite. For a modern reproduction I recommend the Pamela Colman Smith Commemorative Set.