ayağı üsüne salırğa
/ajaʁɯ ysyne salɯrʁa/
This expression has 5 meanings.
Literal translation
to set onto his feet
Intended meaning
To bring a child up to adulthood.
- Adam insannı tamağına quru jaŋız jıl çaqlını tamıb, ayaq üsüne salğan ana sütdü.It is mother's milk that, dripping into a human throat for just a single year, raises a person to their feet.
- Eri ölgenden sora, Kerimat sabiylege, begirek da Soltanŋa, saq qaraydı. Ne bek qıynalsa da, alanı ayaq üslerine salırğa, oquturğa küreşedi.After her husband died, Kerimat looks after the children, especially Soltan, with great care. However hard it is for her, she strives to raise them and give them schooling.
Literal translation
to set onto its feet
Intended meaning
To put an undertaking, task, or property in working order within a short time.
- Urunŋan halq, başına boş bolğanın körüb: «Bizge da jarıq kün tiydi!» – dep, quwanıb, sedirelgen mülkçügün ayağı üsüne salırğa küreşedi.The working people, seeing that they had become free, rejoiced — "A bright day has dawned for us too!" — and set about putting their run-down holding back on its feet.
Literal translation
to set onto his feet
Intended meaning
To treat a sick person and make them well again.
- Jarasın baylarğa doktor tabılmay, tiyrede qatınla ne darman etsele da, anı bla baylay, anı [jaralını] ayağı üsüne etdile.With no doctor to be found to bind his wound, the women of the neighbourhood made what remedies they could, bound it with them, and got the wounded man back on his feet.
Literal translation
to set onto his feet
Intended meaning
To give someone support and help them get established.
- Kolhoz aŋa [Musağa] boluşur, ayağı üsüne eter.The collective farm will help him [Musa] and set him on his feet.
Literal translation
to set onto their feet
Intended meaning
To call people out to a common task and unite them.
- Ullu, gitçe, qart, jaş, er kişi, tişirıw demey, ayağı üsüne bolğandıla.Great and small, old and young, men and women alike — all were roused to their feet.
Variants
- ayağı üsüne eterge
- ayağı üsüne süerge
- ayaq üsüne salırğa
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 81