jalğan daw

/dʒalʁan daw/

Literal translation

false claim

Intended meaning

An accusation of something a person did not do; a trumped-up charge laid against someone.
  • Artda Omar Tokaşnı jaşı Zawurbekni jalğan daw bla türmege da suqdu.Later Omar even shoved Tokash's son Zaurbek into prison on a false charge.
  • Köpge deri juqlayalmadım. Juqlayalmağanımı sebebi ua ne edi? Birinçiden, jalğan daw bla tutulub, haparsız qalğan altı qarındaşım, ala bla birge tutulğan juwuqlarım, teŋlerim – kolhoz jaşawnu ayağı üsüne salğan adamla.For a long time I could not fall asleep. And what was the reason I could not sleep? First of all, my six brothers, arrested on a false charge and gone without a trace, my relatives and friends arrested together with them — the people who set collective-farm life on its feet.

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