awuzu-tili bolmağan
/awuzu-tili bolmaʁan/
Literal translation
having no mouth or tongue
Intended meaning
Unable to speak or to ask for what one needs — said with pity, most often of animals and other helpless creatures.
- Suwda jalan da çabaqla jaşaydıla, awuzları, tilleri bolmağan janıwarla... Ala ötürük ayta bilmeydile, bir birlerin satmaydıla.Only fish live in the water, creatures with no mouth or tongue... They cannot tell a lie, they do not betray one another.
- Mallağa zamanında aşların bere turuğuz, awuzu-tili bolmağan hayıwanlanı günyahlarına kirmegiz, – dedi atabız."Keep feeding the livestock on time, do not sin against the beasts that have no mouth or tongue," our father said.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 67