時ときを作つくる

expression, godan verb (-ru)

crow at dawn; mark the dawn

Fixed expression for a rooster or similar bird crowing at daybreak; also used poetically for the arrival of dawn. The verb 作る here carries a sense of 'creating' or 'marking' the moment.

• 鶏にわとりが時ときを作つくる声こえで目めが覚さめた。

  I woke up to the sound of a rooster crowing at dawn.

• 夜よ明あけとともに、どこかで時ときを作つくる鳥とりの声こえが聞きこえた。

  With daybreak, I heard a bird somewhere crowing to mark the dawn.