Kazakh edit

Alternative scripts
Arabic وتان
Cyrillic отан
Latin otan

Etymology edit

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 edit

  • IPA(key): /o.tɑn/, [wo̞.tɑn]

Noun edit

отан (otan)

  1. fatherland, motherland, homeland, home country

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