talağı tururğa
/talaʁɯ tururʁa/
This expression has 2 meanings.
Literal translation
for one's spleen to stand up
Intended meaning
Of a person: to pant heavily and rapidly after running or exertion, unable to catch one's breath.
- Alimni jüregini urğanı bla soluğanı teŋdi. Alay tohtarığı kelmeydi. Endi jan alıwçulanı qoluna tüşüb ölgenden ese, talağı turub ölse ırazıdı.Alim's heartbeat and his breathing were one and the same. Yet he had no wish to stop. Now he would rather die gasping for breath than fall into the hands of the killers and die that way.
Literal translation
for its spleen to stand up
Intended meaning
Of a horse or donkey: to give out and come to a halt from being worked or ridden too hard.
- Tor alaşa inçiklerine deri terlep, talağı tururğa jetgen ese da, iesini kölüne tierge bolmağança, terk barırğa küreşedi.The bay gelding was sweating down to its fetlocks and close to giving out, yet it kept trying to go fast, as though it could not bear to disappoint its owner.
- Atlarını talaqların turğuzub, igi kesek jol qıdırğandan sora, Sarbiyni jıyını kellik künleni onowun bardıradı.After riding their horses to exhaustion and covering a good stretch of road, Sarbiy's band took counsel about the days ahead.
Variants
- talağın turğuzurğa
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 428
- Малкъар тилни школ фразеология сёзлюгю (1994), PDF page 186
- Къарачай тилни фразеология сёзлюгю (1992), p. 214