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gizlemek

gizlemek

Crimean Tatar

Verb

gizlemek

imperative
2nd person singular

present tense
3rd person singular

past tense
3rd person singular

past participle
adjective

infinitive or verbal noun

gizle

gizley

gizledi

gizlegen

gizlemek

  1. to hide

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish كیزلمك (gizlemek, to hide, conceal, secrete), derived from Proto-Turkic *gīŕ (a kind of box).[1] The original meaning must have meant “to put in a box or bag, to store”.[2] Compare also gizli (hidden, concealed), derived from the same root.

Verb

gizlemek (third-person singular simple present gizler)

  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

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References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *gīŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 760