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kurtarmak.

to save, rescue (to help someone or something to survive); to disentangle, set free

9 characters3 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

verb
  1. to save, rescue (to help someone or something to survive); to disentangle, set free

    transitive
    Kardeşimi kurtardılar.
  2. to relieve, free, to release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish قورتارمق (kurtarmak, “to save, rescue, disentangle, set free”), from Proto-Turkic *kurt-gar- (“to rescue”), causative of the unattested stem *kurt-. Cognate to kurtulmak (“to be saved”) passive form of the same root. Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (qurtɣar-, “to rescue”), Karakhanid [script needed] (qutɣarmāq, “to rescue”), Azerbaijani qurtarmaq (“to rescue”), Bashkir ҡотҡарыу (qotqarıw, “to save”), Chuvash хӑтарма (hăt̬arma, “to save”), Kazakh құтқару (qutqaruw, “to save”), Kyrgyz куткаруу (kutkaruu, “to save, rescue”), Turkmen gutarmak (“to end, finish”), Uyghur قۇتقازماق (qutqazmaq, “to rescue”), Uzbek qutqarmoq.

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