taş-ağaç aşab jilyarğa

/taʃ-aʁatʃ aʃab dʒiljarʁa/

Idiom

Literal translation

to weep eating stone and wood

To cry with uncontrollable, desperate grief.

Men uruşha tebiregen kün Hanifa Nalçikge deri ızımdan kelib, poezdge minerge tebiregenimde, quçaqlab, jibermey, taş-ağaç aşab ma alay jilyağan edi...On the day I set off for the war Hanifa followed me all the way to Nalchik, and when I was about to board the train she embraced me, would not let me go, and wept like that, in utter desperation...
Bügün jaşları qaytmay qalğan jarlı anala da, taş-ağaç çaynay, alay uluydula, – dedi Qanşaw."Today the poor mothers whose sons did not come back are howling like that too, in utter desperation," said Qanshau.

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