ot jağa
/ot dʒaʁa/
This expression has 3 meanings.
Literal translation
fire edge
Intended meaning
The home in which a family was founded and the children were raised.
- Tawlu Prometey da, otnu örteni eterikni bilmey, quşlağa qaçdı. Alay sabiyleni ot jağada jılıtırığın tolu bilib ketdi.The mountain Prometheus too, not knowing what the blaze of the fire would do, fled to the eagles. But he went away knowing full well that it would warm the children at the hearth.
Literal translation
fire edge
Intended meaning
The house a person lives in; one's own dwelling.
- Birinçi nasıplı esgeriwle, joqdan adam bolub, til aylandırğan jerçigi, tuwğan ot jağası bla anasından başlanadıla.The first happy memories begin with the little place where one became a person out of nothing and learned to speak, with the home one was born in and with one's mother.
Literal translation
fire edge
Intended meaning
A person's native land; the country one was born in.
- Alay biz tuwğan jeribizni, ot jağabıznı qoruwlaybız, biz tüzlüknü qalası Sovet vlastnı qoruwlaybız, erkinlik jaşawnu, sabiyleribizni qoruwlaybız, – dedi Asanlanı Hajimurat."But we are defending our native land, our homeland; we are defending Soviet power, the fortress of justice; we are defending a life of freedom and our children," said Asanlany Hazhimurat.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 377