jerine köre – jilyanı
/dʒerine køre – dʒiljanɯ/
Literal translation
according to its place — its snake
Intended meaning
Everything has its own distinctive marks and character, fitting the place and the time it belongs to.
- «Jılına köre – jilyanı degenley, halq tawruhun, jırın da jaşawnu barğanına köre ayta köreme», – dep kele edi Umarnı kölüne, sabiy bolğanlığına."As they say, to each year its snake — I tell the people's legends and songs according to the way life is going," Umar was thinking to himself, child though he was.
Variants
- jılına köre – jilyanı
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 197