ayaq tüb bolurğa

/ajaq tyb bolurʁa/

This expression has 3 meanings.

Literal translation

to be under foot

Intended meaning

To lose one's dignity and be reduced to a despised, servile condition; (with этерге) to degrade and trample on someone.
  • Mussolini, quturğan Gitlerge qoşulub, İtaliyanı ayaq tüb etdi, maltadı.Mussolini, joining the rabid Hitler, trampled Italy underfoot and crushed it.

Literal translation

to be under foot

Intended meaning

Of a garden or field: to be trodden down so that no crop is left.
  • Soltannı üy tizgini osal edi, bahçası begitilmey, malı ayaq tüb bolub tura edi.Soltan's household was in poor order: his garden was not fenced, and his livestock had trampled it bare.

Literal translation

to be under foot

Intended meaning

Of a thing: to be wasted, spoiled, or come to nothing.
  • Qayın anam bizni bazada hawh asırathan almaçıqlanı alağa [çıçhanlağa] ayaq tüb etdirib turğandı.My mother-in-law let the little apples we had loosely stored in the cellar go to waste on them [the mice].

Variants

  • ayaq tüb eterge

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