kapamak

Meaning

1. (transitive) to close, shut
2. (transitive) to plug up, stop up
3. (transitive) to block, cover, conceal, hide, obscure; to veil
4. (transitive) to close down, shut down; to suppress, abolish
5. (transitive) to turn off
6. (transitive) to drop (a matter)
7. (transitive) to lock up (someone, something) in
8. (transitive) to close up (distance), reduce

Hyphenated as

ka‧pa‧mak

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɑpɑˈmɑk/

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قپامق, قاپامق (kapamak, “to shut, close”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (kapa-, “to close”), from Proto-Turkic *kapa-.
Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (kap-, “to close”), Azerbaijani qapamaq (“to shut, close”), Chuvash хупма (hupma, “to close, shut”).

Sentences

Böbreği böyle kanar halde bırakarak yarayı kapamak , hastanın yüzde yüz ölümü demekti.

Closing the wound by leaving the kidney bleeding like this meant one hundred percent death of the patient.