borbayları qıyılırğa

/borbajlarɯ qɯjɯlɯrʁa/

This expression has 2 meanings.

Literal translation

one's hamstrings to be cut

Of a person or animal: to lose all strength and collapse from weakness or exhaustion.

Nasra Hoja, anı bir janına çaqırıb: Qatın, eşekni borbayı qıyılğandı da, açdan amanŋa ketgendi, aş sala tur, kesi eşitmesin ansı! – degendi.Nasra Khoja, calling them aside, said: "Wife, the donkey's legs have given out, it has wasted away from hunger — keep putting food out for it, only don't let it hear you!"
Kesin kökde, jerde ese da bilmey, alay atlaydı, borbayları qırqılıb, qolları bla tögereginde tayanır jer izley.Not knowing whether they were in the sky or on the earth, they walked on like that, their legs giving out under them, groping with their hands for something around them to lean on.

one's hamstrings to be cut

To be seized with fear or alarm at something; to lose one's nerve.

Sovetni, kolhoznu predsedatelleri, brigadir bla voenkomatdan bir leytenant jaş, dağıda qonşu qart arbazğa kirdile. Borbaylarım qıyıldı.The chairmen of the soviet and of the collective farm, the brigade leader, a young lieutenant from the military commissariat, and an old neighbour came into the yard. My legs gave way under me with fright.

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