sagel bolurğa
/saɡel bolurʁa/
Intended meaning
Of a person's clothes: to become worn out, shabby and ragged.
- Jıltırğan çuruqlanı bawla bla baylaybız, şinelleribiz a, jabağı arıta turğan qoynu jabağısıça, sagel bolğandıla.We tie our once-shiny boots on with cords, and our greatcoats have gone to tatters, like the fleece of a sheep whose old wool is being stripped away.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 385