qabar qabını tawusulurğa

/qabar qabɯnɯ tawusulurʁa/

This expression has 2 meanings.

Literal translation

for the bread one is to eat to run out

To reach the end of one's life and pass away.

Bizni qaraçaylıla aytıw bla ua, ölümnü tıyarğa madar joqdu. Adamnı soqur çegisi buzulub, vraç jarıb, saw etse da, bizni qartlarıbız: «Da, anı ua uwahtısı alıqın jetmegen edi», «Alıqın anı qabar qabını tawusulmağan edi», – dep qoyadıla.As we Karachays say it, there is no way to hold death back. Even when a man's appendix bursts and a doctor cuts him open and saves him, our old people just say: "Well, his hour had not yet come", "His bread to eat had not run out yet."
Qabar gırjını tawusulğan bolmaz edi şoförnu.The driver's bread to eat cannot have run out yet.

for the bread one is to eat to run out

For the time a husband and wife were fated to live together to come to an end.

Sora jaşnı, qıznı da qabar qabınları tawusulmaz keziwleri bolur edi.So there must have been a time when the young man's and the girl's bread to eat together would not yet run out.

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