eşek atha mindirirge
/eʃek atxa mindirirɡe/
Literal translation
to set (someone) up on a donkey
Intended meaning
To subject someone to public disgrace before the whole community, exposing them to the people's curses.
- Üçünçüsü, ol namısın taşlağan qahmeni eşek atha mindirib, halq nalat berirça, qara taşha tağıb, qatı bla ozğanla betine tükürürça eterge, ahırında ua Osmannı jaŋıdan alğan qatınına ölgünçü qarawaş bolurça eterge kerekbiz.Third, we must set that shameless woman who threw away her honour on a donkey so the people can curse her, tie her to the black stone so that those passing by spit in her face, and in the end make her a slave to Osman's newly taken wife until she dies.
- Örentil ulunu eşek atha mindirir jeri bardı dep bilmeyme.I do not think there is any ground for parading Yorentil's son on a donkey.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 525