Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic قۇتقارۋ
Cyrillic құтқару
Latin qūtqaru

Etymology

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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 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), Turkish kurtarmak (to save), Kyrgyz куткаруу (kutkaruu, to save, rescue), Turkmen gutarmak (to end, finish), Uyghur قۇتقازماق (qutqazmaq, to rescue), Uzbek qutqarmoq, etc.

Noun

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құтқару (qūtqaru)

  1. salvation

Verb

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құтқару (qūtqaru)

  1. to save, rescue

Derived terms

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