qoz küfde ösgen
/qoz kyfde øsɡen/
Literal translation
grown up in a nut bin
Intended meaning
Brought up with everything one needs, in ease and plenty; pampered and sheltered from hardship.
- «Anası qoz küfde ösdürgen bolur. Betin da süt bla juwğançadı. Kiriwütde malçılanıça, betin kün küydürüb turmaydı», – dep sağışlanadı Murat prokurornu üsünden."His mother must have raised him in a nut bin. His face looks as though it had been washed with milk. He does not let the sun burn his face the way the herders at Kiriuyut do," Murat thinks to himself about the prosecutor.
- Alay a balası qoz gürbege salınıb tursa da, anağa tınçlıq qayda, ana kölü – balada, bala kölü da – tawda, taşda.But even if her child is kept in a nut tub, where is a mother to find peace — a mother's heart is with her child, and the child's heart is up in the mountains, on the rocks.
Variants
- qoz gürbege salınŋan
- qoz küfge batılğan
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 313