suw ağartırğa
/suw aʁartɯrʁa/
Literal translation
to whiten water
Intended meaning
To stretch ayran by adding water to it, so that it comes out thin and weak.
- Jarlılığıbıznı aytsaq, jaramaydı. Suw ağarta turuğuz dep, bir iynek bermegendile, ay sayın birer pud nartüh un beredile.It is no use speaking of our poverty. Telling us to go on watering down our ayran, they did not give us a single cow; each month they give us a pud of maize flour apiece.
Sources
Show sources
- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 413