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

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