beş barmaqnı qıyını

/beʃ barmaqnɯ qɯjɯnɯ/

Literal translation

the toil of five fingers

Earnings a person gains by his own labour, honestly worked for rather than received from others.

Ol Prohorovka stantsiyanı kesini tuwğan eli Şıqıda atası Ahmat beş barmağını halal qıyını bla işlegen üyün saqlağança qoruwlaydı.He defends Prokhorovka station as though it were the house his father Akhmat had built in his native village of Shyky with the honest toil of his own five fingers.

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