tuw baytal kibik
/tuw bajtal kibik/
Literal translation
like a barren mare
Intended meaning
Describing a well-fed, good-looking person who is giddy and boisterous with high spirits.
- Endi tübemeyme qızğa, ne aytayım dep aqılım, tuw emilikça, tartdıradı, jürek kibigim bolur deyme, ma qayala oyulğança, tıpar-tupur etedi.Now I meet the girl, and my mind, wondering what to say, rears up like a barren young mare; I think it must be my heart — it thunders like cliffs collapsing.
Variants
- tuw emilikça
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 463