suw azığı bolğan
/suw azɯʁɯ bolʁan/
Literal translation
one who became the water's provisions
Intended meaning
Said of someone who has died by drowning, or who is fated to drown.
- Ayıw balasına mıllık athança, zamansız suw azığı bolğan sabiyine qaplanıb, qart anası köz suwların tökdü.Throwing herself down like a bear upon its cub, the old mother fell over her child, drowned before his time, and shed her tears.
- Tınç üyüme qayğı salıb, bolğan urunŋanımı da suwğa quydurduŋ ese, suw azığı bolğun sen!Since you brought trouble on my quiet house and made all my toil be poured into the water, may you drown!
Variants
- suw azığı bolluq
Sources
Show sources
- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 413
- Малкъар тилни школ фразеология сёзлюгю (1994), PDF page 179