kölü çögerge
/køly tʃøɡerɡe/
Literal translation
for one's heart to sink
Intended meaning
To grow quiet and sorrowful, to lose one's cheer; in the causative variant, to make someone downcast.
- Harunnu kölü çögedi, közlerin enişge boşlaydı. – Saw bol, Aminat. Sen bir adamğa da igilik bolmasa, amanlıq etmegeniŋe iynanama, – dedi.Harun's spirits sink and he drops his eyes. "Thank you, Aminat. Even if you do no good to anybody, I trust you do no harm," he said.
- Atasını mudahlığı İslamnı da kölün çökdürgendi.His father's sadness made Islam downcast too.
Variants
- kölün çökdürürge
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 266