köz-qulaq bolurğa

/køz-qulaq bolurʁa/

Literal translation

to be eye and ear

To take care of a person or thing, seeing to their needs and helping them.

Bayqulnu beti aman, üsü-başı jalanŋaç edi. Mazan da andan oŋlu tüyüldü, alay Haji-osman aŋa köz-qulaq boladı.Baykul's face looked bad, his clothes were in rags. Mazan is no better off than he is, yet Hadzhi-Osman looks after him.
Kelinle iynek sawadıla, Hajomarnı qart qatını da, sen anı et, sen munu et dep, har zatha da köz-qulaq bola aylanadı.The daughters-in-law are milking the cow, and Hadzhomar's old wife goes about seeing to everything, saying "you do this, you do that".

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