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why can you not sa?
pencereler sılmek - to clean windows or
evde pencereler temiz - to clean my home windows
ama pencereler hiç sılmek 
why not temiz for clean?
camları sılemk is used instead but the meaning of camlarmak is (glass ) to me this could be any type of glass
sılmek - to delete , wipe, erase
We usually prefer cam instead of pencere. Note that "cam" is only haveone syllable while "pencere" three. But what does it mean?
Consider the phrases "recliner", "chair", and "furniture". Recliner is a more specific category than chair; furniture is a more general category than chair. But the vast majority of chairs have a common use - you use the same sort of motor actions to sit down in them, and you sit down in them for the same sort of purpose (to take your weight off your feet while you eat, or read, or type, or rest). Recliners do not depart from this theme. "Furniture", on the other hand, includes things like beds and tables which have different uses, and call up different motor functions, from chairs.
In the terminology of cognitive psychology, "chair" is a basic-level category.
People have a tendency to talk, and presumably think, at the basic level of categorization - to draw the boundary around "chairs", rather than around the more specific category "recliner", or the more general category "furniture". People are more likely to say "You can sit in that chair" than "You can sit in that recliner" or "You can sit in that furniture".
And it is no coincidence that the word for "chair" contains fewer syllables than either "recliner" or "furniture". Basic-level categories, in general, tend to have short names; and nouns with short names tend to refer to basic-level categories. Not a perfect rule, of course, but a definite tendency. Frequent use goes along with short words; short words go along with frequent use.
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