qurçu qanarğa

/qurtʃu qanarʁa/

Literal translation

for one's steel to be quenched

Intended meaning

To get as much of something as one needs and be content with it.
  • Tay, ahır da eşitmegen sözün eşitgenine seyirsinibmi, oğese erikgeni ketib, qurçu qanıb, endi jem aşar jerime barsam da, hatası bolmaz degendenmi, ne ese da sabır bola, çaphanın qoydu.The colt — whether startled at hearing a word it had never heard before, or because its restlessness had passed and it had had its fill and thought "it will do no harm now if I go to the place where I eat my fodder" — somehow grew calm and stopped running.
  • Karl fon Gelmutha börü nek kerek edi? Öz börülügü bla teŋleşdirir üçünmü? Oğursuzluqnu çaldişde tutub, qurçun qandırırğamı? Oğese esine bir aman aqıl tüşübmü?Why did Karl von Helmut need a wolf? To measure it against his own wolfishness? To keep cruelty behind wire and so have his fill of it? Or had some evil thought come into his head?

Variants

  • qurçun qandırırğa

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