rescue

Etymology
From, from , , ; from prefix  + , present active infinitive of , from  +.

Verb

 * 1) To save from any violence, danger or evil.
 * 2) To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
 * 3) To recover forcibly.
 * 4) To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.
 * 5)  To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
 * 6)  To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
 * 1)  To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
 * 2)  To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
 * 1)  To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: أَنْقَذَ, خَلَّصَ, نَجَّى
 * South Levantine Arabic: أنقذ
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: rescatar
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: ратава́ць, вы́ратаваць
 * Bulgarian:, спася́
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: päästma
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: rescatar
 * Georgian: გადარჩენა, შველა, ხსნა
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek: ,
 * Hawaiian: hoʻopakele, hoʻopalekana
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: tarrtháil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 救い出す,
 * Kazakh: құтқару
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ກູ້ໄພ
 * Latin:, redemptura, redemptiō, asseravatio, extractiō, subventiō, , redimō, asservo, extrahō, subveniō, ēripiō
 * Latvian: glābt
 * Lithuanian: išgelbėti
 * Macedonian: спасува, спаси
 * Manchu: ᠠᡳᡨᡠᠪᡠᠮᠪᡳ
 * Maori: rauora, whakarauora, whakarauora
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Ngazidja Comorian: huyi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: съпасти
 * Old English: hreddan
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ; ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: спаша́вати, спаса́вати, спа́сити, спа̑сти
 * Roman:, , ,
 * Slovak: zachraňovať, zachrániť
 * Slovene: reševati, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik: наҷот додан
 * Tatar: коткару
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ཉེན་ག་ནས་བཏོན
 * Turkish:
 * Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎍𐎉
 * Ukrainian: рятува́ти, врятува́ти
 * Urdu: بچانا
 * Uyghur: قۇتقۇزماق, قۇتۇلدۇرماق
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: ,
 * Yámana: tama-lāgöna
 * Yiddish: ראַטעווען, מציל זײַן


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Russian: ,
 * Welsh:


 * Dutch: ,


 * Dutch:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Russian:, ; ,


 * French: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Korean:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ,

Noun

 * 1) An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
 * 2) A liberation, freeing.
 * 3) The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
 * 4) A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
 * 5) A rescuee.
 * 1) A rescuee.

Usage notes

 * Often used attributively as an adjective, e.g. "rescue equipment".

Translations

 * Arabic: إِنْقَاذ
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: rescate
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: ратава́нне, рату́нак, выратава́нне
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: rescate
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: הצלה
 * Hindi: ,
 * Irish: tarrtháil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: құтқару
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin:, redemptura, redemptio, asservatio, extractio, subventio
 * Macedonian: спасување
 * Manchu: ᠠᡳᡨᡠᠪᡠᠨ
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: berging
 * Nynorsk: berging
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: saoradh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: спаша́ва̄ње
 * Roman: spašávānje
 * Slovak: záchrana
 * Slovene: reševanje
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: pagliligtas
 * Tajik: наҷот
 * Ukrainian: поряту́нок
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: achubiaeth


 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: pelastuslento


 * Hebrew: (1),  (2)
 * Mandarin:, (1),  (2)
 * Telugu: