pırh-çırh bolurğa

/pɯrx-tʃɯrx bolurʁa/

Literal translation

to become 'pyrkh-chyrkh' (a suppressed snorting sound)

Intended meaning

To laugh quietly and furtively, typically in mockery of someone.
  • Taza da tapmazın bilgende... içinden aytama dep, barı da eşitirça aytıb jiberdi. Andan-mından pırh-çırh boldula.When he saw he would get nowhere at all... meaning to say it to himself, he blurted it out so that everyone could hear. Here and there people snickered.
  • Endi ua deyse, huna qalarğa taş tabılmaymıdı? Alaymıdı, Azamat? – dep, Batır biyağı qısadan qısa baradı. Anı alay aythanına jaşıraq qawum pırh-çırh etdile."So now you say no stone can be found to build a wall? Is that so, Azamat?" – Batyr keeps pressing harder and harder as before. At his putting it that way the younger crowd snickered.

Variants

  • pırh-çırh eterge

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