başı eniş bolurğa

/baʃɯ eniʃ bolurʁa/

Literal translation

for one's head to be downward

To be put to shame; to be disgraced and have to feel ashamed before others.

Jaşawnu jaşaw etgen biyikle – igilik, halallıq, taza niet, bileklik – bıla barı da tawlu milletge töredile. Ol zatlanı qatı tutsaq, bir künde başıbız eniş bolmaz dep, Svetlana ol zatlanı aytadı.The heights that make life worth living – goodness, generosity, a pure heart, support for one another – all these are custom for the mountain people. Saying that if we hold firmly to these things we will never one day be put to shame, Svetlana speaks of them.

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