öllük janım bardı
/øllyk dʒanɯm bardɯ/
Literal translation
I have a soul that is going to die
Intended meaning
Said in refusing to take on the burden of another person's wrongdoing: the speaker, being mortal and answerable in the hereafter, will not bring another's guilt upon their own conscience.
- Meni bir öllük janım bardı. Ol alay etse, men ahıratha, anı biy atasına ne aytıb barlıqma?I too have a soul that is going to die. If he does such a thing, what am I to say to his noble father when I come to the hereafter?
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 164