kurtarmak
Meaning
- (transitive) to save, rescue (to help someone or something to survive); to disentangle, set free
- (transitive) to relieve, free, to release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc.
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In summary
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 (qūtqaru, “to save”), Kyrgyz куткаруу (kutkaruu, “to save, rescue”), Turkmen gutarmak (“to end, finish”), Uyghur قۇتقازماق (qutqazmaq, “to rescue”), Uzbek qutqarmoq.
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