qart başın jaş eterge

/qart baʃɯn dʒaʃ eterɡe/

Literal translation

to make one's old head young

Of an elderly person: to take on work that belongs to the young, without embarrassment and without treating it as a burden.

Ana qarındaşı [Gonday], anı, egeçinden tuwğan Jamalnı japsarır üçün, qart başın jaş etib aylanadı.His maternal uncle [Gonday], in order to console him, Jamal, his sister's son, goes about acting young in spite of his years.

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