🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

बचाव

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bachāv

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Salvage/ˈsælvɪdʒ/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4520 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"डूबते हुए जहाज का बचाव कार्य शुरू हो गया है।"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The act of saving a ship or its cargo from wreck or abandonment.

    "Divers attempted the salvage of the sunken Spanish galleon."
As verb
  1. 1

    Rescue (a wrecked or damaged ship or its cargo) from loss at sea.

    "An specialized team managed to salvage parts of the crashed aircraft."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late Middle English: from Old French, from medieval Latin salvaticare 'save', from Latin salvus 'safe'.

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