jerde-kökde bolğanın bilmezge

/dʒerde-køkde bolʁanɯn bilmezɡe/

This expression has 2 meanings.

Literal translation

not to know what there is on earth and in the sky

To be carried away by elation, so delighted that one loses all sense of one's surroundings.

Olsağatda men işley turğan jerge kelgen atam üyge bar degenley, kökde-jerde bolğanımı da unutub, jolğa tebiredim.Right then, when my father, who had come to the place where I was working, said "go home", I forgot whether I was in heaven or on earth and set off down the road.

not to know what there is on earth and in the sky

To be so distraught with grief or worry that one no longer knows what one is saying or doing.

Ol aman jaş kelmegendi da, qayğı etgenden söleşeme. Sen ölmegin, jerde, kökde esem da, bilmeyme, – dedi Ajam Magometge.That wretched boy hasn't come, and it's out of worry that I'm talking like this. Long may you live, I don't know whether I'm on the earth or in the sky, — Ajam said to Magomet.

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