çıqmağan janı içinde bolğan
/tʃɯqmaʁan dʒanɯ itʃinde bolʁan/
Literal translation
whose soul, not having gone out, is still inside
Intended meaning
Extremely weak, sick and helpless; so frail as to be scarcely clinging to life.
- Ofitser a [nemisli], ızına qaçarğa murat etib, maşinası bla jardan ketib, bolğanın sıdırıb, çıqmağan janı içinde, küçden qutulğandı.The officer [a German], meaning to flee back, drove his car off a cliff, was stripped of everything he had, and barely got away with his soul still inside him.
- Senmise, a qız? Da ne eteyik, turabız... çıqmağan janıbız içibizde, – dep, teşilib söleşdi Minat."Is that you, girl? Well, what can we do, we get by... barely alive," said Minat, speaking openly.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 497