tuwmağan ayğa salam bergenley
/tuwmaʁan ajʁa salam berɡenlej/
Literal translation
as if giving a greeting to a moon that has not been born
Intended meaning
Said of someone who rejoices over something ahead of its time, while it is still unsettled whether it will come about at all.
- Men, tuwmağan ayğa salam bergenley, urluq salğınçı oquna mirzew üleşe başlağanma.Rejoicing far too soon, I started handing out the grain before the seed was even sown.
- Tuwmağan ayğa quran oquğanlay, alıqa bolluğu bla bolmazlığı belgisiz işni jamawat awuzuna tüşerin da süymey edi.Counting on it far too soon, he did not want a matter whose outcome — whether it would happen or not — was still unknown to fall into people's mouths.
Variants
- tuwmağan ayğa salam bergença
- tuwmağan ayğa salam bergen kibik
- tuwmağan ayğa quran oquğanlay
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 464