jawhar bürtükça
/dʒawxar byrtyktʃa/
Literal translation
like a grain of pearl
Intended meaning
Outstandingly fine and beautiful; the pick of all others, said of a person or a thing.
- Busağatda ua alağa kölü barıb adam küçden qaraydı. Adamlanı aralarında jawhar bürtükleça boluwçu edile.Just now a person can hardly look at them, so taken is the heart with them. Among people they were like grains of pearl.
Variants
- jawhar bürtük kibik
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 190
- Малкъар тилни школ фразеология сёзлюгю (1994), PDF page 84