sarıwun qaynathan

/sarɯwun qajnatxan/

Literal translation

one who has boiled his bile

Intended meaning

Said of a person who nurses hatred against someone and pays them back for it; one who is embittered and at feud with another.
  • Elde ua bar edile Harunŋa sarıwların qaynathanla: bir hataları bolmay, ataları, erleri joyulğanla, Dahirça, jeti juqlap esinde bolmağan zarawatlıqnı sınap qaythanla da.And in the village there were those who nursed their hatred against Harun: people who, through no fault of their own, had lost fathers and husbands, and people like Dakhir, who had come back from enduring a cruelty they could not have dreamt of in seven sleeps.

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