jarlını buzowu ögüzlük eter
/dʒarlɯnɯ buzowu øɡyzlyk eter/
Literal translation
the poor man's calf will do an ox's work
Intended meaning
Where a family has little, the young one steps into the grown-up's place and carries the weight of the household — when the father is gone, a boy or girl bears what an adult would.
- Jaŋıznı buzowu ögüzlük eter degenley, Ahmat duniyasın alışhanlı, malğa-üyge da qarağan tamatasıdı – ontörtjıllıq Kerim.Just as they say that the lone man's calf will do an ox's work, ever since Ahmat departed this world the senior one looking after the livestock and the house is fourteen-year-old Kerim.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 186
- Къарачай тилни фразеология сёзлюгю (1992), p. 93