tüp bolurğa
/typ bolurʁa/
This expression has 3 meanings.
Literal translation
to become the bottom
Intended meaning
Of a person or family: to be left without a son or heir, so that the line comes to an end.
- Efendi, Osmanŋa qatın alıb, aŋa bir jaş tuwmasa, men tüp bolama. Meni mülküm kimge qallıqdı? – dedi Sarbiy."Efendi, if Osman takes a wife and no son is born to him, my line dies out. Who will my property be left to?" said Sarbiy.
- Üynü tütünü da çığadı. Endi bu tüp bolğan üyleden tüyüldü.Smoke is rising from the house too. It is no longer one of those houses whose line has died out.
Literal translation
to become the bottom
Intended meaning
Of a settlement, people or state: to have its life broken up, so that it falls into ruin and ceases to exist.
- Bilemise, bu el onowçu amaltın tüp bolurğa azdan qalıb turğandı.You know, because of that headman this village came within a hair of being wiped out.
- Çıqdığız – qaya, tawdan jaratıla, Tüp bolğan elle jaŋıdan jarıdıla.You came forth, created out of cliff and mountain; the villages that had been destroyed shone once more.
Literal translation
to become the bottom
Intended meaning
For destruction to fall on someone's goods and property, leaving them with nothing.
- «Tor baytal bla Hışmış bolmasala, üyübüz ertte tüp bolluq edi», – dep Qujon köp kere aythandı."If it were not for the bay mare and Hyshmysh, our household would long since have been ruined," Kuzhon said many times.
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 472
- Малкъар тилни школ фразеология сёзлюгю (1994), PDF page 210