bir dep
/bir dep/
This expression has 2 meanings.
Literal translation
saying 'one'
Intended meaning
Used with a negated verb to stress that there is absolutely none at all.
- Istawatda bir dep bir jathan mal körünmeydi.Not a single head of livestock could be seen lying in the pen.
Literal translation
saying 'one'
Intended meaning
Counting off items individually, one after another.
- Qaspot ketgen kün mında bir dep bir miŋ bla altı jüz qoy qalğan edi.On the day Kaspot left, one thousand six hundred sheep, counted one by one, remained here.
Variants
- bir derge
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 129