suwsabı qanarğa
/suwsabɯ qanarʁa/
This expression has 2 meanings.
Literal translation
for one's thirst to be quenched
Intended meaning
To have one's longing or desire fulfilled, so that one feels content.
- Ollahi, jüregimde bolğannı saŋa aytmasam, sen etgen aqıllı onowğa tıŋılamasam, suwsabım qanmaydı.By God, unless I tell you what is in my heart, unless I listen to the wise counsel you give, I find no satisfaction.
- Qalay kerek edi busağatda aŋa söz nöger, keç bolsa da, halqğa tuwra bolluq muratnı aytıb, suwsabın qandırırğa [Safar].How he needed a companion to talk to just then, so that by speaking of the intention that would sooner or later become plain to the people, [Safar] might satisfy his longing.
Literal translation
for one's thirst to be quenched
Intended meaning
To avenge oneself on someone, paying back a wrong in full.
- Men Sovet vlast üçün bir kişige bet eterik tüyülme! Men anı jawlarını barmaqların birem-birem tartıp çığarsam da, suwsabım qanarıq tüyüldü.For the sake of Soviet power I will show no favour to anyone! Even if I pulled out the fingers of its enemies one by one, my thirst for revenge would not be quenched.
Variants
- suwsabın qandırırğa
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 417