qan qaynathan
/qan qajnatxan/
This expression has 3 meanings.
Literal translation
that makes the blood boil
Intended meaning
Commanding respect and authority; whose word carries weight and is obeyed by others.
- Samatnı atası Hajimurza elde qan qaynathan adam bolğandı.Samat's father Hajimurza was a man of standing in the village.
Literal translation
that makes the blood boil
Intended meaning
Of a period: the height of someone's strength and success, when their affairs prospered and they prevailed.
- 1942 jıl. Ol keziwde germanlı uwuçlawçulanı bek qan qaynathan zamanları bolğandı. Ala bizni, başha qırallanı da köp jerlerin alğandıla.The year 1942. That was the time when the German plunderers were at the very height of their power. They had taken many of our lands and those of other countries too.
Literal translation
that makes the blood boil
Intended meaning
Extremely hot, sweltering — said of a climate or a place.
- Kavkazda dırınŋa, hans arıtırğa jüz aytdırmay barmawçu qızla endi qan qaynathan qumlu tüzlede, içerge suwları, aşarğa aşları bolmay, taŋ alasından iŋir qaraŋısına deri mamuq bahçada işleydile.Girls who back in the Caucasus would not go to the haymaking or to turn the grass until told a hundred times now work in the cotton fields on the scorching sandy plains, with no water to drink and no food to eat, from first light until the dark of evening.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 290