huju
/xudʒu/
1. cursed, damned, wretched, ill-fated, hateful — Said of a hated or troublesome thing, person or event; common in curses with qallıq, as in bu huju qallıq awruw "may this disease be cursed".
- bu huju qallıq awruw! — damn this illness!
- huju qallıq! — be cursed!
- bu huju tiş — this damned tooth
- ol huju qallıq eşek — that cursed donkey
- bu huju jürek — this wretched heart
- huju sanla qıynaladıla — the wretched limbs ache
- ol huju qazawat köbleni aldı — that accursed war took many
- huju kün — an ill-fated day
2. bad, harmful, pernicious, deadly — As in huju hawa "a deadly climate".
- huju hawa — a deadly climate
3. ownerless, abandoned, deserted, orphaned — Usually with qalırğa: be left without an owner or without anyone to care for one; also become orphaned. Tenishev and Suyunchev 1989 marks the plain 'orphaned' reading as archaic.
- huju qalırğa — to be left ownerless; to be orphaned
- malı-mülkü huju qalğandı — his property was left without an owner
- huju jurtla — abandoned homesteads
- huju malla — ownerless livestock
- murdarnı qılıçı huju qalır — a murderer's sword is left ownerless
- tuwğan üyleribiz huju qaldıla — our native homes were left deserted
4. very, tremendously, terribly — An intensifier of how well or how hard something is done, as in huju oynadıq "we played great"; also aman huju.
- huju oynadıq! — we played tremendously well!
- bu at huju çabadı — this horse runs terribly fast
- ol huju işleydi — he works tremendously hard
Expressions
- huju qallıq — damn it!, may it be left deserted (a curse formula, said of a thing or person; often paired with бош къаллыкъ)