jalan adam
/dʒalan adam/
Literal translation
bare person
Intended meaning
A person with no family and no earnings of their own, living free of ties and obligations.
- Kesigizge belgilidi, adamlanı: «Ket-ket, taqmaqları bla almasa, Halimge bir jalan adammı quruğandı?!» – derikleri.You know yourselves what people will say: "Get away — if she will not take him for his ditties, is it that unattached men have run short for Halim?!"
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 170