şaytan jel
/ʃajtan dʒel/
Idiom
Literal translation
devil wind
Intended meaning
A wind that rises and strikes upward, sweeping things high into the air; a whirlwind or violent updraft.
- Bolğan küküreydi, janadı. Ot tüşgen tiyreni şaytan jel suwurub, örge alıb barğança, tögerek kökge deri janŋandı.Everything was thundering and burning. As though a whirlwind had swept up the neighborhood the fire had fallen on and carried it aloft, everything around blazed right up to the sky.
- Nege külesiz, tüz aytadı İsmayıl, şaytan jel qozğalğan kününde terekleni tamırları bla qobarır, üyleni oyar.What are you laughing at? Ismail is right: on a day when the whirlwind rises it will tear the trees up by their roots and flatten the houses.
Sources
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- Akbaev 2007 · Phraseology of the Karachay-Balkar Language
- Zharashueva 2017 · Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary