majüsü otha tabınŋança
/madʒysy otxa tabɯnŋantʃa/
Literal translation
as a pagan bowed down to the fire
Intended meaning
Said of someone who serves or bows to another slavishly, with no cause for it and nothing gained by it.
- Şamdariy bizni bu tiyrelege nek aşırğanından ullu sezimim bolmasa da, anı ol etgen işi üçün, majüsü otha tabınŋança, anı allında baş ururğa hazırma.Though I have no great notion of why Shamdariy sent us to these parts, for that deed of his I am ready to bow before him as a pagan bows to the fire.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 351