hayran bolurğa
/xajran bolurʁa/
This expression has 2 meanings.
Intended meaning
To lose one's senses and behave as if witless; to be stunned or dizzy with bewilderment.
- Jolumda bara barğanım sayın, atamı küçlü sözleri esime tüşüb, alağa seyirsinŋenden, başım hayram bolub, jer bazman, çayqala-çayqala, tögerek aylanadı.The further I went along my road, the more my father's powerful words came back to me, and from marvelling at them my head reeled, and the ground, like a pair of scales, swayed and swayed and spun all around.
Intended meaning
To be helplessly perplexed, unable to decide what to do.
- Amalsızğa qalğan jaş, ne eterin bilmey, başı hayran bolub olturadı.The young man, left with no way out, sits there at his wits' end, not knowing what to do.
- Olturad buşuwlu ana, Hayram bolub başı.The grieving mother sits, her head in a whirl.
Variants
- hayram bolurğa
- hayran eterge
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 482
- Малкъар тилни школ фразеология сёзлюгю (1994), PDF page 214