qolğa jetdirmey

/qolʁa dʒetdirmej/

Literal translation

without letting it reach the hand

Intended meaning

Of goods: traded eagerly and at a high price, with buyers and sellers outbidding one another so that the item is taken the moment it appears.
  • Dağıstanda, Çeçende, Çerkesde, Dügerde, Taw artında da, ermenlilede, ebzelede da tawlula etgen zatlanı qoldan qolğa jetdirmegenley satıb alıb turğandıla.In Daghestan, in Chechnya, in Cherkessia, in Digoria, beyond the mountains, and among the Armenians and the Georgians too, the things the mountain people made were bought and sold without ever being let to pass from hand to hand.

Variants

  • qolğa jetdirmegenley

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