saqal-mıyıq urğan
/saqal-mɯjɯq urʁan/
Literal translation
(one whom) beard and moustache have struck
Intended meaning
Of a boy: having reached puberty and grown into a young man, at the age when facial hair first comes in.
- Uruş üçünçü jılına kirgende, elde saqal-mıyıq urğan bolub kişi qalmadı.When the war entered its third year, not a man of beard-and-moustache age was left in the village.
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 385