jarı tonlu
/dʒarɯ tonlu/
Intended meaning
A person who is destitute and without strength or standing.
- Qıyamıt, efendige aylanıp, aytdı: «Köremise jarı tonlulanı, biri burulub qaramay, çaçılıb ketdile. Ne deseŋ da, kesi adamıŋ başhadı».Qiyamit turned to the efendi and said: “Do you see these poor wretches — not one of them so much as looked back, they scattered and were gone. Say what you will, your own kin are something else.”
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 187