kölüŋ jer bla teŋ bolurğa
/kølyŋ dʒer bla teŋ bolurʁa/
Literal translation
for your spirit to become level with the ground
Intended meaning
To be crushed by grief; to suffer deep inner pain.
- «Meni kişi saqlamasa, kimge qaytırıqma men?!» – dep, kölüŋü jer bla teŋ etib, kişi körmezça, jawun bla birge jilyağanıŋı bileme.I know that, saying "If no one waits for me, whom shall I return to?!", your heart crushed to the ground, you wept along with the rain so that no one would see.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 268