abramak

Borrowed from Middle Mongol ᠠᠪᠤᠷᠠᠬᠤ (aburaqu, “to save, rescue, help”). Cognate with Chuvash упра (upra, “to protect, guard”) and Yakut абраа (abraa).

abramak

1. (nautical, transitive) to manage
2. (dialectal, transitive) to accomplish, overcome, handle
3. (dialectal, transitive) to master
4. (dialectal, transitive) to protect, preserve, safeguard
5. (dialectal, transitive) to rescue from a difficult situation
6. (dialectal, intransitive) to complete the lack
7. (dialectal) to grow, develop enough to protect oneself; to save oneself
8. (dialectal) to be barely enough

4=abrar
5=a

• abrama

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “abramak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 86
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “abramak”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 1
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “abramak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 2

• “abramak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu