tar qarında asırağan
/tar qarɯnda asɯraʁan/
Literal translation
who kept (someone) in a narrow belly
Intended meaning
Said of a mother in relation to her own child: so bound to the child that she will not shrink from the child's hardships or turn the child away.
- Erinden çıqğan mende töre bolmaz... tar qarınında asırağan anam keŋ üyünde da asırar dep, jarlı üyüme qaytıb kelgenme.There is no place of honour for me, who has left her husband... I have come back to my poor home, thinking that my mother, who kept me in her narrow womb, will keep me in her wide house too.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 431