köl tabarğa
/køl tabarʁa/
Literal translation
to find spirit
Intended meaning
To gather courage and inner strength and become confident and hopeful; in the causative variants, to give someone such courage.
- Leylyanı qızğanı ışırılğança bolub, Huraydan köl taphanı bla tawkel etib, aytdı.Leyla's flare of anger seemed to die down, and, having taken heart from Huray, she spoke up boldly.
- «Qorqma, jigit, sen, alay ete, anaŋa ahşı stol, şintikle da işlerse», – dey, jaşha köl etdire, işley edi."Don't be afraid, lad; doing it this way you'll make your mother a fine table and chairs too," he kept saying, giving the boy heart, and went on working.
Variants
- köl tapdırırğa
- köl etdirirge
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 263
- Къарачай тилни фразеология сёзлюгю (1992), p. 136