dırın bolurğa
/dɯrɯn bolurʁa/
This expression has 3 meanings.
Literal translation
to become mown grass
Intended meaning
Of a whole community: to be struck down by illness, so that everyone is laid up sick at once.
- Gum qalada bla Şatoyda ua bir aman awruw da aqlağa qoşulub... Askeribizni üç etgenden biri oquna dırın bolğan bolur edi.And in Gum fortress and in Shatoy a vicious sickness joined the Whites as well... Probably one man in every three of our army was laid low by it.
Literal translation
to make into mown grass
Intended meaning
To kill people off, to slaughter them to the last one.
- Keldim da, emegenleni men sıyırdım dorbunların. Ala bla uruş etib, dırın etdim barın.I came and took the giants' caves away from them. I fought with them and cut every one of them down.
Literal translation
to make into mown grass
Intended meaning
To destroy something completely, to sweep it away leaving nothing.
- Tirligi ua bir jerde da qalmağandı, buz barın da dırın etgendi, jer bla teŋleşdirgendi.Not a crop was left standing anywhere: the hail flattened it all and levelled it with the ground.
Variants
- dırın eterge
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 162
- Малкъар тилни школ фразеология сёзлюгю (1994), PDF page 66