bir awuq
/bir awuq/
Literal translation
one interval
Intended meaning
For some stretch of time; a fair while.
- İesiz qalğan bibliotekağa anabız bizni iymey da bir awuq zaman turdu.For quite a while our mother would not let us go to the library that had been left unattended.
- Sora, juq da aytmay, bir awuqğa deri statuyaça sın qatıb qaldı.Then, saying nothing at all, he froze stiff like a statue for a while.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 126