Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic وتان
Cyrillic отан
Latin otan

Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian وَطَن (vatan), from Arabic وَطَن (waṭan). Compare also Kyrgyz ватан (vatan, dialectal), Bashkir ватан (vatan), Tatar ватан (watan), Uyghur ۋەتەن (weten), Uzbek vatan, Azerbaijani vətən, Turkish vatan, etc.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /o.tɑn/, [wo̞.tɑn]

Noun

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отан (otan)

  1. fatherland, motherland, homeland, home country

Declension

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Derived terms

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