keŋ jürekli
/keŋ dʒyrekli/
Literal translation
wide-hearted
Intended meaning
Kind and honourable, never grudging help or compassion to someone weaker than oneself.
- Ol ullu adamnı, jomaqçını, jüregi keŋ edi, ullu duniyanı quwançı, jarsıwu da sıyınırça, bu tişirıwnu günyahları da batarça.That great man, the storyteller, had a wide heart, wide enough for the whole world's joy and sorrow to fit inside it, and for this woman's sins to sink into it.
- Anı janında süelgen er kişini keŋ jüregi bar edi. Ullu, keŋ jüregi.The man standing beside them had a wide heart. A big, wide heart.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 233