atarallay taralğın
/atarallaj taralʁɯn/
Literal translation
may you pine away like Ataral
Intended meaning
A curse wishing that the person be struck by a great, inconsolable sorrow.
- Eline ölet kirib, halqı qırıla turğanda, sırtdan qarab, sıtılğandı. «Atarallay taralğın!» – dep anı üçün aythandıla.When plague entered his village and his people were dying, he looked on from the ridge and wept bitterly. That is why they say, "May you grieve like Ataral!"
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 58
- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 537