qara kesew bolurğa
/qara kesew bolurʁa/
This expression has 3 meanings.
Literal translation
to become a black firebrand
Intended meaning
To be consumed by grief or rage, or to make someone suffer that way.
- Müyüşde ua oltura edi qara kesew bolub bügün eki jaşçığın qaytmazğa aşırğan tişirıw.In the corner sat a woman, consumed by grief, who that day had sent off her two little boys never to return.
- Artilleriya qazawatnı Allahıdı dep boş aytmaydıla. Fritsleni tamam qara kesew etib jandırğandıla.They do not say for nothing that artillery is the god of war. They burned the Fritzes to cinders.
Literal translation
to become a black firebrand
Intended meaning
Of a body part: to be beaten black and blue, crushed and covered in welts.
- Juq da aŋılamayma, tohta, tohta! Da butuŋ qara kesew bolub turadı da, – dedi Valera."I don't understand a thing, wait, wait! Why, your leg is beaten black and blue," said Valera.
- Jawhar a, qarındaşını ızından çabama dep, tobuğun qara kesew etdi.And Zhaukhar, running after her brother, bruised her knee black and blue.
Literal translation
to become a black firebrand
Intended meaning
To be scorched or burned up, and so to die or be destroyed.
- Duniyanı azabından qara kesew bolub, sabanla arasında ullu jolnu janında awub tura edi [nemisli soldat].Burned to a cinder by the world's torment, [a German soldier] lay fallen among the fields beside the main road.
- Men körgenme, özge, biznikile bolğannı qara muğeli etib qoyğan bir alamat sawut çığarğandıla.I have seen it myself: our people have produced a remarkable weapon that reduces everything to charred cinders.
Variants
- qara muğeli bolurğa
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 298