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
Sources
Show sources
- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 383