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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