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
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 86