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
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 19
- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеологиясы (2007), p. 123
- Малкъар тилни школ фразеология сёзлюгю (1994), PDF page 12
- Къарачай тилни фразеология сёзлюгю (1992), p. 20