jüregi qan tırnarğa
/dʒyreɡi qan tɯrnarʁa/
Literal translation
for one's heart to scratch blood
Intended meaning
To be seized with anxious distress and left helpless, seeing no way out.
- Jabrail Loqmanoviç Harunnu... kim bolğanın aŋılap, kimden ayırılğanın aŋılap, jüregi qan tırnadı.Jabrail Lokmanovich, realizing who Harun was and whom he had been parted from, was seized with anguish.
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 212
- Малкъар тилни школ фразеология сёзлюгю (1994), PDF page 98