çırmawuq hans kibik
/tʃɯrmawuq xans kibik/
Literal translation
like bindweed grass
Intended meaning
Said of people who are bound tightly to one another by kinship, their lives and fortunes inseparable.
- Biz, beş da taw el, çırmawuq hans kibik, bir birge baylamlıbız. Biribizni quwançı biribizni da quwançıdı. Buşuwubuz da alaydı.We, all five mountain villages, are bound to one another like bindweed grass. The joy of one of us is the joy of the other as well. Our sorrow is the same.
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 498
- Малкъар тилни школ фразеология сёзлюгю (1994), PDF page 228