tayaq tübünden tizilirge

/tajaq tybynden tizilirɡe/

Literal translation

to line up from under a stick

Intended meaning

To bind oneself by a solemn oath, as men do when pledging unity and loyalty to one another.
  • Biynöger, nögerlerin qatına jıyıb, aytdı: Meni kölüme kelgeni: bu işni başlağınçı (türmeden adamlanı boşlarğa), biribiz ölgen jerde biribiz da ölürça, biribiz bu qan içgen itleni qollarına tüşsek, awuzu qandan tolsa da, juq aytmazça, tayaq tübünden tizilirge kerekbiz.Biynöger gathered his companions around him and said: What I have in mind is this — before we begin this business (freeing the people from the prison), we must swear an oath, so that where one of us falls the rest fall with him, and so that if one of us ends up in the hands of these blood-drinking dogs he says nothing, though his mouth fill with blood.
  • Bir tayaqnı tübü bla tizilib, Ant etgendile tawlula birlikge.Filing under a single stick, the mountain people swore an oath of unity.

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