joqdan bürtük etgen

/dʒoqdan byrtyk etɡen/

This expression has 2 meanings.

Literal translation

who made a grain out of nothing

A person who brought a child up, nurtured them and put great labour into it.

Qallay adam edi ese da ataŋ, seni joqdan bürtük etgen ataŋ... Pavel bek ajımlı ölüb ketdi.Whatever sort of man your father was, the father who raised you from nothing... Pavel died a most lamentable death.
İzlegeniŋ – sabiyleriŋden alğa Bu duniyadan ketergedi, bileme. Alay men da, joqdan barğa çığarğan Anamı körüb tururğa süeme.What you wished for was to leave this world before your children, I know. But I too want to go on seeing my mother, who brought me up out of nothing.

that made a grain out of nothing

A place that keeps someone supplied with food and drink.

Sawulğan sütley, jılı topuraq, sabiylerine aş-suw bergen, alanı joqdan bürtük etgen topuraq, anı otha horlatmaz üçün, küreşebiz.Warm as new-drawn milk, the soil that gave its children food and drink, the soil that fed them out of nothing — we fight so that fire shall not take it.

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