toymay
/tojmaj/
without eating one's fill; half-starved — The negative converb of toyarğa 'be full', literally 'not getting full'. It is used both for a single meal (getting up from the table still hungry) and for a hungry way of life, as in qarınları toymay jaşaydıla 'they live half-starved'.
- qarınları toymay jaşaydıla — they live half-starved
- jaş şorpadan toymay qaldı — the boy didn't get his fill of the soup
- ol aşdan toymay turdu — he got up from the food without eating his fill
- sabiyle toymay jatdıla — the children went to bed half-starved
- biz qışda toymay jaşadıq — we lived half-starved in winter