gizlemek

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to hide, conceal, secrete; to put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.
  2. (transitive) to keep something secret, obscure, hide, conceal; to dissemble
  3. (transitive) to camouflage

Synonyms

maskelemek

kamufle etmek

gizli tutmak

salgılamak

kılık değiştirmek

örtülmek

peçe takmak

söylememek

kimliğini gizlemek

göstermemek

peçe ile örtmek

pusuya yatmak

Frequency

C2
Etymology

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish كیزلمك (gizlemek, “to hide, conceal, secrete”), derived from Proto-Turkic *kīŕ (“a kind of box”). The original meaning must have meant “to put in a box or bag, to store”. Compare also gizli (“hidden, concealed”), derived from the same root. Cognates Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (kizlēmēk, “to hide, conceal”), [script needed] (kiz, “wardrobe, clothes bag, any kind of cupboard”), Azerbaijani gizləmək (“to hide, conceal”), Chagatai [script needed] (kizlemek, “to hide”), Kipchak [Arabic needed] (kizle-, “to hide”), Turkmen gīzlemek (“to be concealed, put away”), Yakut кистээ (kistee, “to hide, conceal”).

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