tübüne keterge
/tybyne keterɡe/
Literal translation
to go to the bottom
Intended meaning
Of meat or other food: to be cooked well past the right point, until it is overdone.
- Men, basta tübüne ketmesin, qaray turayım, sen, igi balamça, ol ullu üyde tepsini otowğa qonaqlağa elt, – dedi Jantemir qızı Badimatha."Let me keep watch so the basta doesn't cook away at the bottom; you, like my good child, take the table in that big house through to the guests in the room," they said to Badimat, Jantemir's daughter.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 466