keçeni kün etib
/ketʃeni kyn etib/
Literal translation
turning the night into day
Intended meaning
To labour without pause and to the point of exhaustion.
- Jarlı Zahret, suw orununa içerça ariwluğuŋ, har kim tohtap qarawçu çırayıŋ öksüzle asırayma dep ketgenlikge, keçeŋi kün etib, asırağan üydegiŋi tartıp qoluŋdan alıb, mallanı sathança, satıb tebiregendile da!Poor Zahret — though your beauty, which one could drink instead of water, and your face, at which everyone stopped to gaze, were given up with the words "I am raising orphans," now they have started to tear from your hands and sell off, as one sells cattle, the family you brought up by turning your nights into days!
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 240