tili bolmağan

/tili bolmaʁan/

This expression has 2 meanings.

Literal translation

whose tongue does not exist

Unable to read or write; lacking schooling.

Men, tili bolmağan, bir qaraŋı adam, andan ne aŋılarıqma?I am an illiterate, benighted man — what am I going to understand of it?

whose tongue does not exist

Unable to speak any language but one's own.

Ol künlede, tilim bolub, ala [nemetslile] bla bir söleşirge qalay termile edim!In those days, how I longed to have the language and speak with them [the Germans] just once!

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