sen tayanŋan qaya awar
/sen tajanŋan qaja awar/
Literal translation
may the cliff you lean on collapse
Intended meaning
Said harshly of or to a person who will never prosper and comes to no good; an unlucky, worthless individual.
- Mırtaz Biymurzağa aytdı: «Ullu jolda muljar salam körgenme dep, anı üçünmü aylanŋansa duniyanı qırıb, quruğun sen, sen tayanŋan qaya awğan etedi».Myrtaz said to Biymurza: “Just because I said I had seen a bundle of straw on the high road, is that why you have gone about wrecking the world? May you perish — the cliff you lean on is caving in.”
Variants
- sen tayanŋan qaya oyulur
- sen qarağan qazan qurur
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 397