anı beti qara bolğa edi

/anɯ beti qara bolʁa edi/

Literal translation

may his face be black

An emphatic oath formula used to insist that something will not be allowed to happen, staking another person's disgrace on it.

Üsüpnü beti qara bolğa edi, men ol ağaçnı aŋa satdırmasam, – dep tohtağandı atabız."May Yusup's face be blackened if I don't make him sell that timber," our father insisted.

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