emçek ulan
/emtʃek ulan/
Collocation
Literal translation
suckling son
Intended meaning
A child taken from infancy and brought up by someone other than its own parents, pampered and honored in the fosterer's household (typically the child of a rich man or prince).
- Emçek ulannı jilyathan etgense dep, meni atama jüz çıbıq urğandıla.Saying that I had made the foster child cry, they gave my father a hundred lashes.
- Aqsaq Temir Sozarnı emçek ulanŋa alıb ösdürgendi.Lame Timur took Sozar as a foster son and raised him.
Sources
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- Bashieva and Zharashueva 1994 · School Phraseological Dictionary of the Balkar Language
- Zharashueva 2017 · Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary