az jaşab, köb körürge

/az dʒaʃab, køb køryrɡe/

Literal translation

to live little, to see much

To go through a great deal of suffering and hardship in a short life.

Aŋılağanma endi kesim sınab, Jaşawnu çıŋılın bla biyigin, İçib taza suwundan, kir suwundan, Endi meni da bardı erkinligim: «Az jaşab, köb kördüm», – derge ömürge.Now I have understood it by my own experience, both the abyss and the height of life; having drunk of its clean water and its dirty water, now I too have the right to say for all time: «I lived little, but I saw much».

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