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kapamak

Pronunciation: /ka.paˈmak/

“kapamak” is a Turkish word. Its 8 meanings in English:

verb

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

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قپامق, قاپامق (kapamak, “to shut, close”), from Proto-Turkic *kap- Cognate with Azerbaijani qapamaq (“to shut, close”) and Chuvash хупма (hupma, “to close, shut”).

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