jaş başın qart eterge

/dʒaʃ baʃɯn qart eterɡe/

This expression has 2 meanings.

Literal translation

to make one's young head old

To let one's youth go by without marrying and to grow old without a family of one's own.

Jaş başın qart etib, ne qızlağa, ne qatınlağa qoşulmay turğan a igimidi?And is it any good to make one's young head old, keeping company with neither girls nor women?

to make one's young head old

To stay alone and not start a second family after one's spouse has died or left.

Anaŋı köremise, jaş başın qart etib, seni bağıb turğanın, er kişile bla teŋ işlep aylanadı, – dedi ınna."Do you see your mother — how she has made her young head old raising you, and works on a par with the men?" said the grandmother.

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