til tutarğa

/til tutarʁa/

This expression has 3 meanings.

Literal translation

to hold the tongue

Of a young bride: to refrain from speaking to her husband's relatives out of deference, as old custom required.

Kelinçik, qayın atasından til tuta, çelekni ber dep körgüztdü.The young bride, keeping her silence before her father-in-law, signalled to him to hand her the bucket.

to hold the tongue

To stop speaking to one another after taking offence or quarrelling.

Oğese, bir birigizden tilmi tutasız? – dep sordu Afuwajan."Or are the two of you not on speaking terms?" asked Afuuadzhan.
Murat, arqasın da eşik taba aylandırıb, jatıb tura edi. Biz da jerleribizni etib jatabız. Ol keçe söleşgen bolmadı, bir birden til tuthança qalabız.Murat lay with his back turned toward the door. We too make up our places and lie down. That night nobody spoke; we stay as though we had stopped speaking to one another.

to hold the tongue

To say nothing at all, refusing to give away what one knows.

Saŋa juq sorulğan zamanda, til tutmasaŋ, ekinçi maŋa tübeseŋ, eşitmedim deme, – dedi Qanamat."When you are asked something, if you don't keep your mouth shut, then the next time you meet me, don't say you weren't warned," said Kanamat.
Alanı til tutuwların qamiçile bla, mawzerle bla açdırırğa kerekdi.Their refusal to talk has to be broken open with whips and with Mausers.

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