kübe teşmegen

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Intended meaning

• Malçıla tayaqların, jılqıçıla jügenlerin, biçençile çalğıların, sabançıla çagaların, traktorların, kombaynların, rulların aqsaqal qartlağa, üydegili tişirıwlağa, saqal-mıyıq urmağan sabiylege, kübe teşmegen qızlağa qoyub, ullu qazawatnı hatersiz gırhı joluna çıqğandıla.Leaving their staffs to the herdsmen, their bridles to the horse-herders, their scythes to the mowers, their harrows, tractors, combines and steering wheels to the ploughmen — leaving all of it to the grey-bearded old men, to married women, to boys whose beards and moustaches had not yet come in, and to girls not yet married — they set out on the merciless, rutted road of the great war.