qoltuqğa alıb keterik

/qoltuqʁa alɯb keterik/

Idiom

Literal translation

who would take [one] under his arm and carry [one] off

Physically strong, hefty and imposing; a person of great bodily power.

Ertte bu qalalanı qalab: «Aha!» – dep tohtağanla [erttegile], bizni qoltuqğa alıb keterik duşmannı da kül etib, tardan süre kelgendile.Those who long ago built these fortresses and stood saying "Aha!" [the men of old] turned even the mighty enemy who would have carried us off under his arm to ashes, and drove him down through the gorge.

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