kurtulmak.
to be rescued, be saved, be freed; to escape
Meaning & usage
to be rescued, be saved, be freed; to escape
to get rid of, be rid of (something or someone unpleasant), be relieved
to get loose, break loose
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قورتلمق (kurtulmak, “to escape, get free, get rid of, be saved, be relieved”), from Proto-Turkic *kurt-ul- (“to be saved, be rescued”), passive of the unattested stem *kurt-. Cognate to kurtarmak (“to save, rescue”) causative form of the same root. Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (qurtulmaq, “salvation”), [script needed] (qurtul-, “to be saved, be rescued”), Karakhanid [script needed] (qurtulmāq, “to be saved, be rescued, be relieved”), Azerbaijani qurtulmaq (“to escape, run away”), Bashkir ҡотолоу (qotolow, “to get free”), Chuvash хӑтӑлма (hăt̬ălma, “to be saved, get rid of”), Kazakh құтылу (qutıluw, “to escape, get rid of”), Khakas худуларға (xudularğa, “to escape, save oneself”), Kyrgyz кутулуу (kutuluu, “to escape, get rid of”), Southern Altai кудулар (kudular, “to disappear”), Tatar котылу (qotılu, “to escape, get free”), Turkmen gutulmak (“to recover”), Uyghur قۇتۇلماق (qutulmaq, “to avoid, escape”), Uzbek qutulmoq.
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