beti qara bolğa edi
/beti qara bolʁa edi/
Literal translation
may his face be black
Intended meaning
Exclamation used to reject a suggestion emphatically, insisting that the thing will never happen or that the person concerned deserves shame for it.
- Betleri qara bolğa edi, alanı kişi ozmasa.Shame on them if no one outdoes them.
- Betiŋ qara edi, e kişi, menden juq buqduralmasaŋ!Shame on you, man, if you can hide nothing from me!
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 120
- Къарачай тилни фразеология сёзлюгю (1992), PDF page 68