köz qamatırğa

/køz qamatɯrʁa/

This expression has 2 meanings.

Literal translation

to dazzle the eye

Said of a person whose beauty is so striking that one can hardly look at them.

Taw elleni birinde aythılıq uwçu kişi jaşaydı. Kerti ayta esele, qatınını ariwluğu adam közün qamata edi deydile.In one of the mountain villages there lived a famous hunter. If people tell it true, they say his wife's beauty dazzled the eye.
Bıllay ariw sıfatlı, köz qamathan tawlu qız, kesine uşaş ariw sabiyle ösdürür adam, jaŋızlay qalğanı jüregimi qıynaydı.That such a fair-faced, dazzling mountain girl, one who would raise beautiful children like herself, has been left alone pains my heart.

to dazzle the eye

Of an object: to gleam or flash brightly.

Bolşevikleni qollarında ullu biçaqları ua, uçhan julduzlaça, jıltırap öçüledile, köz qamatadıla.The great knives in the Bolsheviks' hands flash and die away like shooting stars, dazzling the eye.

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