beti aman bolurğa
/beti aman bolurʁa/
Literal translation
for one's face to become bad
Intended meaning
To turn pale and sickly in appearance, especially from illness.
- Soslan, seni sawluğuŋ a qalaydı? Betiŋ aman bolğandı... Endi boluru bolğandı dep, asırı tüŋülübmü qalğansa?"Soslan, how is your health? You have gone pale... Have you despaired so much, thinking that whatever was to happen has already happened?"
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 119