kurtarmak

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Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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.

Verb[edit]

kurtarmak (third-person singular simple present kurtarır)

  1. (transitive) to save, rescue (to help someone or something to survive); to disentangle, set free
    Kardeşimi kurtardılar.They rescued my brother/sister.
    • 1930 January 1, “Bu sigortaciler hâlâ çalışiyorlar”, in Yarın, page 1:
      Bu para ile Hilali Ahmer cemiyeti (bir kaç bin) fukara ve veremliyi kurtarabilir.
      With this money the Red Crescent society can help thousands of the poor and consumptive.
  2. (transitive) to relieve, free, to release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc.

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