közünden körürge
/køzynden køryrɡe/
Idiom
Literal translation
to see (something) out of someone's eye
Intended meaning
To keep and use another person's belonging with affection and care, prizing it as a memento of its owner and so keeping that person in mind.
- Mölehan Halimatnı ullu bağır tazın arqasına qaplab, alıb ketdi. «Kesi közünden körüb turluqma», – dey edi.Mölehan turned Khalimat's big copper basin upside down onto their back and carried it off. "I will go on treasuring it as Khalimat's own keepsake," they kept saying.
- Men a buwunluq ieme, anı meni közümden kör, Ol meni belgimdi saŋa.And I am sending a bracelet — treasure it as a memento of me; it is my token to you.
Variants
- közünden tutarğa
- közünden jürütürge
Sources
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- Bashieva and Zharashueva 1994 · School Phraseological Dictionary of the Balkar Language
- Tekeev 1992 · Phraseological Dictionary of the Karachay Language
- Zharashueva 2017 · Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary