ağaç atha mindirirge

/aʁatʃ atxa mindirirɡe/

This expression has 3 meanings.

Literal translation

to set someone on a wooden horse

Intended meaning

To shame or disgrace someone openly, so that they cannot hold their head up in public.
  • Elde bizni tanımağan adam joqdu. Birle körsele, ömürden-ahırğa ağaç atha mindirib aylanırla.There is no one in the village who does not know us. If some people see it, they will go about disgracing us for ever and ever.
  • Günyahım a jetsin ana qarındaşlarıma, Ol Geriy bla Qasbotha – Men jazıqnı, deydi, bıla mindirdile Bıllay ağaç atha.May my curse fall on my mother's brothers, on that Geriy and Qasbot – it was they, she says, who set me, the wretched one, on such a wooden horse.

Literal translation

to set someone on a wooden horse

Intended meaning

To carry a dead person on the funeral bier to burial.

Literal translation

to set someone on a wooden horse

Intended meaning

To stir a person up, to incite or provoke them.

Variants

  • ağaç atha barırğa
  • ağaç qara atha mindirirge
  • qara atha mindirirge

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