esi keterge

/esi keterɡe/

Literal translation

for one's mind to go away

To have one's attention taken up by something in particular; to be engrossed in it to the exclusion of all else.

Jıyılğanlanı esleri jaşçıqğa ketib, ol qart qatınnı ketgenin kişi eslemedi.The gathered people's attention was all on the boy, and no one noticed that the old woman had gone.
İşine asırı bek esi ketgenden, tirmençi Jamal qatına kelgen Jambotnu eslegen oquna etmedi.So absorbed was he in his work that Djamal the miller did not even notice Djambot, who had come up beside him.

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