Clauson (1972)
An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish
p. 38
ut-
(1) ‘to win (something Acc.) at gambling’; (2) ‘to beat, defeat (someone, various cases)’ (a) at gambling; (b) in battle, etc. S.i.a.m.l.g. nearly always in meaning (1), less often in 2(a), rarely in 2(b). Türkü viii ff. (a gambler) tokuzo:n boş ko:n utmı:ş ‘won ninety ownerless sheep’ IrkB 29; (if a man wears a reddish white stone) kopka: utğay ‘he will beat everyone’ (or ‘win everything’ ? at gambling) Toy. 18 (ETY II 59): Uyğ. Man.-A yegedmek utmak bolzun ‘may they have success and victory’ M I 28, 18; 29, 32-3; utmış(?) yegedmiş vreşti[ler] ‘the victorious and successful angels’ 27, 1: Bud. (oh my daughter, by your wisdom) utduŋ yegedtiŋ ‘you have won and succeeded’ (in an argument) U II 21, 11-12; similar phr. (of a competition in unselfishness) U III 46, 18; 69, 21; tört törlüg şımnu süsin utup yegedip ‘successfully conquering the army of four kinds of demons’ TT IV 12, 55; o.o. USp. 104, 21; Hüen-ts. 2062-3; TT X 80 and 252: Civ. utmak yegedmek TT I 2: Xak. xi ol anı: uttı: qamarahu fi’l-la‘ib wa ğayrihi ‘he beat him at gambling and other things’ Kaş. I 170 (uta:r, utma:k; verse); andağ eriğ kim uta:r ‘who can beat (yağlib) a man like that?’ I 200, 20; bizke: kelip ö:ç uta:r ‘coming to us they wreak (yaqḍī) their vengeance’ II 103, 27: KB yağığ utğuçı ‘conquering the enemy’ 2141; same meaning 2641, 4883; sözümni utup ‘trying to defeat my arguments’ 4004: xiii(?) Tef. ut- ‘to defeat’ (in a contest of skill) 332: xiv Muh. ğalaba fi’l-qimār u:t- Mel. 6, 18; Rif. 78 (in a phonetic note on the rounded vowels, saying that this is the meaning in the normal Ar. pronunciation): Çağ. xv ff. ut- ‘to win’ of a gambler Vel. 87 (quotn.); ut- (‘with -u-’) burdan qimār wa giraw ‘to win at gambling or betting’ San. 58v. 8 (quotns.): Xwar. xiv ut- ‘to win’, esp. ‘to win (a game Acc.)’ Qutb 201; MN 35: Kip. xiii ğalaba ut- Hou. 38, 8: xiv ut- qamara İd. 8; ut- ẓafara ‘to be victorious’ 15; ğalaba wa ẓafara wa qadara bi-ma‘nā rabaḥa (‘to overcome in the sense of gaining’) ut- Bul.: xv ẓafara wa ğalaba ut- Tuh. 24b. 1 (and 27a. 2): Osm. xiv ff. ut- ‘to win’, esp. at gambling; ‘to acquire (something Acc.) by conquest’; c.i.a.p. TTS I 731; II 935; III 718; IV 790; a pronunciation üt-, peculiar to Osm. and still surviving in xx Anat., SDD 1439, is recorded as early as xvi.