tili aylanmazğa

/tili ajlanmazʁa/

This expression has 4 meanings.

Literal translation

one's tongue does not turn

To be unable to get a word out because of confusion, fright or embarrassment.

Etiwçüsün etdi Asmat, jaşnı betine suw çaçdı, Tili aylanmay köp turdu, jügü awur edi jaşnı. Olturub da biraz turdu, tamam, köp bola köz jaşı.Asmat did what she always did, splashed water on the young man's face; his tongue would not turn for a long while, heavy was the young man's burden. He sat a while as well, and truly his tears came in plenty.

one's tongue does not turn

To be unable to speak clearly from intoxication, after heavy drinking.

Çoppak bla Elbuzduq, bağadı, uçuzdu dep qaramay, semiz tawuqlanı bişirib, Çoppaknı tar otowunu eşigin qatı begitib, közleri qızarıb, tilleri aylanmay tohtağınçı içdile.Choppak and Elbuzduk, caring nothing for what was dear or cheap, cooked fat hens, shut the door of Choppak's narrow room fast, and drank until their eyes went red and their tongues would no longer turn.

one's tongue does not turn

To be unable to speak in another language.

Bir Allah, ol men aŋılarıq, aytallıq da zatladan tüyüldü. Tilim oquna aylanallıq bolmaz deyme, – dedi ınna.By the one God, that is not a thing I could understand or say. I don't think my tongue could even turn to it, — said the grandmother.

one's tongue does not turn

To lack the nerve to come out with what one means to say.

Aytıb ierim kelmeydi. Qaydan, jarlı, qalay ese da tilim aylanmaydı aytıb ierge.I have no wish to come out with it. How could I, poor thing — somehow my tongue will not turn to say it.
Busağatda bizden jüz bla jarım miŋ som tilerge kimni tili aylanŋandı?Whose tongue has turned, just now, to ask a hundred and fifty thousand som of us?

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