köl aşarğa

/køl aʃarʁa/

This expression has 2 meanings.

Literal translation

to eat heart

To feel hurt or resentful toward someone; to be wounded and bear a grievance.

Üsüpge jaq basasa deyse. Men anı halın bileme. Sen aŋa nege köl aşaysa? Anı nek jawlaysa? Ne tersligi bardı? – dedi Şerifat Asiyatha.They say you are taking Yusup's side. I know what he is like. Why do you hold a grievance against him? Why do you treat him as an enemy? What is he guilty of? – said Sherifat to Asiyat.
Allahha da tüyülbüz birça ırazı. «Duniyanı jarathan neni da biz süygença etmegendi!» – dep, köl aşaybız.Not even with God are we equally content. "The one who created the world did not make anything the way we would have liked!" we say, and take offense.

to eat heart

To set oneself to a task with resolve and strive at it in earnest.

Köl qızbay da, qol batır degenley, köl aşab, qolğa alsaŋ, etmezligiŋ joqdu.As they say, the heart is a coward and the hand a hero: if you put your heart into it and take it in hand, there is nothing you cannot do.

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