toba de
/toba de/
Literal translation
say 'repentance'
Intended meaning
Said to check someone for what they have just uttered, urging them to retract it and repent of having said it.
- Tileyik da, Halim ketsin. Toba degiz. El anı küçden tilep keltirgendi."Let us ask Halim to leave, then." Take that back. The village brought him here only by hard pleading.
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 457