baş-ayaq salırğa

/baʃ-ajaq salɯrʁa/

Literal translation

to lay down head and foot

To plead with someone for help or mercy; to make oneself a supplicant before another.

Jilyağandan, taralğandan ne hayır. Barayıq Maçarğa, baş-ayaq salayıq. Adam balası tüyülmüdü, – degenni aytdı."What good is weeping and grieving? Let us go to Machar and plead with him. Is he not a human being too?" — that is what he said.
Eski hunaların uppa ete, eski qabırlada jaŋıdan duwa tutdurğan tawlula, sıyırılğan mülklerini qaytırıqların izlemey, dağıda partiyanı «qayğırıwluğuna» baş-ayaq salğandıla.The mountaineers, kissing their old walls and having prayers said again at the old graveyards, did not seek the return of their confiscated property, but once more pleaded before the party's "solicitude".

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