töşek bolurğa
/tøʃek bolurʁa/
Literal translation
to become a bed
Intended meaning
To fall gravely ill and be confined to bed, unable to get up.
- Alay bir qawumla, hawa jaraşmay, töşek bolğandıla.But some of them, the climate not agreeing with them, took to their beds.
- Qarındaşlarım a… «Siz başha duniyada esegiz, men mında ne eteme?!» – degen künlerim az bolmağandı, anam harip töşekde bolmasa.As for my brothers… there were not a few days when I said, "If you are in the other world, what am I doing here?!" — were my poor mother not bedridden.
Variants
- töşekge tüşerge
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 447