barçı-kelçige jürügen
/bartʃɯ-keltʃiɡe dʒyryɡen/
Idiom
Literal translation
going about on 'go!—come!'
Intended meaning
Performing another person's menial service and petty errands; a servant kept for small tasks.
- Biyçe qızla keslerine birer qarawaş qıznı şapağa, qumğançığa, barçı-kelçige jürütedile.The noble girls each keep a slave girl to serve them, to carry the ewer, to run their errands.
- Basiyat Qobanlanı barçı-kelçige jürügen adamları bolub turğandı.Basiyat was for a long time one of the Koban family's errand runners.
Sources
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- Bashieva and Zharashueva 1994 · School Phraseological Dictionary of the Balkar Language
- Zharashueva 2017 · Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary