saklamak

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to hide; to put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.
  2. (transitive) to keep, store, save
  3. (transitive,with-ablative) to protect, preserve, shield

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
sak‧lɑ‧mɑk
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sɑk.ɫɑˈmɑk/
Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صاقلامق (saklamak, “to hide, conceal, save, keep, store, preserve, shield”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (sakla-, “to guard, protect”), derived from Proto-Turkic *sạk (“aware, alert”). See dialectal sak (“alert, vigilant”). Equivalent to sak + -la + -mak. cognates Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (sakla-, “to guard, protect, watch over”), Azerbaijani saxlamaq (“to keep, hold”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (sakla-, “to be careful”), Bashkir һаҡлау (haqlaw, “to guard, protect”), Chagatai [script needed] (saxlamak, “to watch”), Chuvash сыхлама (syhlama, “to protect, keep, store, defend, guard”), Kazakh сақтау (saqtau, “to keep, store, save, protect, guard”), Kipchak [Arabic needed] (sakla-, “to protect, beware of”), Kyrgyz сактоо (saktoo, “to hide, keep, protect”), Tatar саклау (saqlaw, “to protect, guard, defend”), Turkmen saklamak (“to keep, store, take care of”), Uyghur ساقلىماق (saqlimaq, “to preserve, protect, guard, protect”), Uzbek saqlamoq (“to preserve, store, guard”).

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Zaten  küçüklüğümden  beri   saadeti  israf etmekten  korkar bir
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 kısmını ilerisi  için   saklamak  isterdim.

Since I was little, I was afraid of wasting happiness, and I wanted to save some of it for the future.

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