duniyanı başı tübüne bolurğa
/dunijanɯ baʃɯ tybyne bolurʁa/
This expression has 2 meanings.
Literal translation
for the world's top to become its bottom
Intended meaning
For everything to go to ruin; for the ordinary order of life to collapse.
- Da, ant ızındandı, maŋa qarap, duniya tübü başına bolmasa! Teyri, alay aythanım üçün, duniyağa bir zat da bolmaz, men a ahşılıqğa joluqmazğa bolluqma.Yes, an oath has consequences — let the world not turn bottom over top on my account! By God, nothing will happen to the world because I said that, but I myself may come to no good.
Literal translation
for the world's top to become its bottom
Intended meaning
To make a deafening racket; to fill the place with noise and shouting.
- Jelinleri qızğan iynekle ua, ökürürge qalıb, duniyanı başın tübüne etedile.And the cows with swollen udders, on the point of bellowing, turn the world upside down.
Variants
- duniyanı başın tübüne eterge
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 159