başına aq tük çığarğa
/baʃɯna aq tyk tʃɯʁarʁa/
Literal translation
to bring out white hair on one's head
Intended meaning
To suffer deep distress or sorrow over something; also, to cause someone such distress.
- Tawlanŋa da sorğanma degenimde, başın bulğab, içinden murulday berdi. Anı üçün başına aq tük çıqğan bolur edi.When I said I had asked the mountains too, he shook his head and kept muttering to himself. That must be why grief had turned his hair white.
- «Ay, men ol kün anı [Samatnı] öltürüb ketmegenim başıma jüz aq tük çığaradı», – dey edi Örüzmek."Oh, my failure to kill him [Samat] that day torments me a hundred times over," Yoryuzmek would say.
Variants
- başına aq tük çığarırğa
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 109