qarın jal
/qarɯn dʒal/
Idiom
Literal translation
belly wage
Intended meaning
An arrangement under which a hired laborer is paid nothing but the food he is fed, the keep being reckoned as his whole wage.
- Alanı da [qatınnı] ataları joyulub ketgenden sora, jaŋız qarındaşları Muratnı işlenmeklik bla çınıqdırır üçün, süd bla kesib, ömürlükge Dudarqalağa qarın jalğa bergen edile.After their and [the woman's] fathers had perished, in order to harden their only brother Murat with work, they settled it in court and gave him to the Dudarqalas for life as a servant kept for his food.
Variants
- qarın jalçı
Sources
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- Bashieva and Zharashueva 1994 · School Phraseological Dictionary of the Balkar Language
- Zharashueva 2017 · Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary