qaran qalırğa
/qaran qalɯrʁa/
Intended meaning
Of land: to be left unplowed and untended, going to waste and bearing no crop.
- Biz, kolhoz bolğunçu, bir nietli, bir muratlı bolmağanıbız sebepli, bolmağança ullu fayda berlik jerle qaran qalıb, madul bolub turadıla.Because, before we became a kolkhoz, we were not of one mind and one purpose, lands that would have given unheard-of great yield lie untilled and neglected.
- Anda aythandı adam ulu: «Endi aqıllı bolurma, malnı, mülknü da zıraf etmem, gırjınnı bir burhuçuğun da jerge tüşürmem. Qarar amaltın, jerni qaran qaldırmam, bağar üçün malnı açdan öltürmem», – dep.There the son of man said: "Now I shall be sensible, I shall waste neither livestock nor property, I shall not let a single crumb of bread fall to the ground. I shall tend the land and not leave it untilled; I shall feed the livestock and not let them die of hunger."
Variants
- qaran qaldırırğa
- qaran qoyarğa
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 303