baş qusarğa
/baʃ qusarʁa/
Literal translation
to vomit up a head
Intended meaning
Of grain or a crop: to come into ear and set kernels after flowering.
- Dağıda mirzew külnü tübünden çıqdı, sabanla baş qusdula, gülle, terekle ösdüle, kırdık çıqdı.And again the grain came up from under the ashes, the fields came into ear, flowers and trees grew, grass sprang up.
- Qışnı küysüz askerleri Qaçhandıla, buqğandıla. Özenlede ua, baş qusub, Jıgırala çaqğandıla.Winter's merciless armies have fled and gone into hiding. And in the valleys, coming into ear, the wild grasses have blossomed.
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 96