tawuşu çığarğa

/tawuʃu tʃɯʁarʁa/

Literal translation

for one's sound to come out

For it to become known whether a person is dead or alive; for word of someone to reach home, especially from the war.

Ay, nasıpsız a! – dedi. – Andan da nasıpsız a ol jarlı sabiy boldu. Mashut da saw bolmaz ansı, bir tawuşu çığar edi."Oh, the poor unlucky man!" he said. "And even unluckier than him was that poor child. Mashut cannot be alive either, or some word of him would have come."

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