suw-salam bolurğa
/suw-salam bolurʁa/
This expression has 3 meanings.
Intended meaning
To get drenched, so that not a dry spot is left.
- Ol keçebiz bek qıyın keçeleribizden biri edi. Jaşla artıq alamat tınçayalmadıla. Vera ua, jibib, suw-salam bolğan edi.That night of ours was one of the hardest we had. The young men could not rest at all well. And Vera, having got wet, was soaked to the skin.
- Belime deri jibigenme. Suw-salam bolğanma.I got wet up to my waist. I am soaked through.
Intended meaning
To grow thin and waste away, becoming gaunt and wasted.
- «Köremise, süymeklik maŋa siŋenli, suw-salam boldu sanlarım», – dep, stsenada oynağança, közlerin da süzüb, Tamara sanlarını suw-salam bolğanın körgüztgença etdi."Do you see, ever since love entered me my body has wasted away," said Tamara, and, narrowing her eyes as if acting on a stage, she made a show of how her body had wasted.
Intended meaning
Of an animal or a person: to sweat heavily, to be bathed in sweat.
- Jaş qaratornu suw-salam etib keltirgendi.The young man brought the dark bay horse back lathered in sweat.
Variants
- suw-salam eterge
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 415
- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеологиясы (2007), p. 156
- Къарачай тилни фразеология сёзлюгю (1992), p. 208