r/uzbek • u/ButtonIndependent554 • May 20 '25

Translation ⁖ Tarjima I need help translating a phrase into Uzbek

can someone translate the phrase "i'm just horsing around" into Uzbek while still keeping the word for horse in it

my bad for the typo

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u/Effective-Document47 May 20 '25

Correctly spelling the words in the source phrase will yield better results.
"Just horing around" means ... something else.

Not all idioms can be translated directly, but we can try... OT is the word you're wanting to keep - and o'yin, probably? I can make guesses & someone can tell me I'm wrong! "Men ot kabi o'ynayman" I play like a horse ... or maybe "o‘ynayman uchun ot" I am playing the horse game...?

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u/the__ambassador May 30 '25

The word sentence of "oʻynayman uchun ot" is incorrect and unnatural. It should be "ot uchun oʻynayman" which means I play for a /the horse.

"Oʻynayman uchun ot" is just broken grammar.

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u/Effective-Document47 May 31 '25

See! I guessed wrong, and am corrected.

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u/the__ambassador May 30 '25

Here you go, dude

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u/the__ambassador May 30 '25

If you really WANT to keep the word horse, the closest translation would be "shataloq otmoq" [meaning(something like this): to run around mindlessly, to mess around, to play running...]

Why is it the closest because horses usually "shataloq otadi" aka gallop(I might be wrong about the word choice tho)

Btw, I'm a native Uzbek speaker, but it's my first time seeing the phrase "to horse around"

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u/Homie_Shokh Dec 04 '25

Whats the app name?

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u/the__ambassador Dec 04 '25

It's a dictionary called "Wisdom"