tüb bolurğa
/tyb bolurʁa/
This expression has 3 meanings.
Idiom
Literal translation
to become the bottom
Intended meaning
Of a person or family: to be left without a son or heir, so that the line comes to an end.
- Efendi, Osmanŋa qatın alıb, aŋa bir jaş tuwmasa, men tüb bolama. Meni mülküm kimge qallıqdı? – dedi Sarbiy."Efendi, if Osman takes a wife and no son is born to him, my line dies out. Who will my property be left to?" said Sarbiy.
- Üynü tütünü da çığadı. Endi bu tüb bolğan üyleden tüyüldü.Smoke is rising from the house too. It is no longer one of those houses whose line has died out.
Idiom
Literal translation
to become the bottom
Intended meaning
Of a settlement, people or state: to have its life broken up, so that it falls into ruin and ceases to exist.
- Bilemise, bu el onowçu amaltın tüb bolurğa azdan qalıb turğandı.You know, because of that headman this village came within a hair of being wiped out.
- Çıqdığız – qaya, tawdan jaratıla, Tüb bolğan elle jaŋıdan jarıdıla.You came forth, created out of cliff and mountain; the villages that had been destroyed shone once more.
Idiom
Literal translation
to become the bottom
Intended meaning
For destruction to fall on someone's goods and property, leaving them with nothing.
- «Tor baytal bla Hışmış bolmasala, üyübüz ertte tüb bolluq edi», – dep Qujon köb kere aythandı."If it were not for the bay mare and Hyshmysh, our household would long since have been ruined," Kuzhon said many times.
Sources
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- Bashieva and Zharashueva 1994 · School Phraseological Dictionary of the Balkar Language
- Zharashueva 2017 · Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary