özdenlik eterge
/øzdenlik eterɡe/
Collocation · Light-verb construction
Literal translation
to do nobility
Intended meaning
To give others a share of what one has, especially of one's own food; to be open-handed.
- Barisbiy bla meni alay jarathanıbıznı körüb, qalğanla da bizge ayağan bolur edile – tiymedile. Bizni ua özdenlik eterge esibizge da kelmedi.Seeing how well Barisbiy and I got on, the others must have felt sorry for us — they left us alone. But it never even crossed our minds to share what we had.
Sources
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- Bashieva and Zharashueva 1994 · School Phraseological Dictionary of the Balkar Language
- Zharashueva 2017 · Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary