akçe

See also: akce and akče

English

Alternative forms

• akche, akcheh

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آقچه (akça, akçe) (compare Turkish akçe).

Noun

akçe (plural akçes)

2. (historical) A silver coin minted during the Ottoman Empire, valued at one-third of a para.
   • 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 209:

     Worth the sum of two thousand two hundred akches, this is all a final gift to the said maiden if he fails to marry her within the appointed period of time.

   • 2011, Christine Woodhead, editor, The Ottoman World:

     The corvée is an archaic feature, absent from later statutes, but the notion that 50 akçes was the rate of compensation due for loss of tithes lingered.

Translations

Ottoman silver coin

• Armenian: աքչե (akʻčʻe)
• Azerbaijani: ağça
• Bulgarian: акче (akče), аспра (aspra)
• Greek: άσπρο (el) n (áspro)
• Hungarian: akcse (hu)
• Polish: akcze n
• Romanian: accea f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: акча f, а̀кче n, а̏спра f, ја̏спра f

  Latin: akča f, àkče (sh) n, ȁspra (sh) f, jȁspra (sh) f

• Turkish: akçe (tr), akça (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: آقچه (akça, akçe)

• Turkmen: akja
• Uyghur: ئاخچا (axcha)
• Uzbek: aqcha (uz)

Anagrams

• ecka, cake, EAKC, ace K

Turkish

Alternative forms

• akça

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آقچه (akçe, (earlier) akça, “silver money, coin, a third part of a para, anciently a real coin of much greater value and a day's pay for a soldier, now a mere money of account”), from Proto-Turkic *ākča (“silver coin; money”), from Proto-Turkic *āk. By surface analysis, ak +‎ -çe.

cognates

• Tatar акча (aqça)
• Bashkir аҡса (aqsa)
• Kyrgyz акча (akca)
• Southern Altai акча (akča)
• Kumyk акъча (aqça)
• Karachay-Balkar ахча (axça)
• Crimean Tatar aqça
• Kazakh ақша (aqša)
• Khakas ахча (axça)
• Shor ақча
• Tuvan акша (akşa, “money”)
• Chuvash укҫа (ukśa, “coin”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /akˈt͡ʃe/, /ˈak.t͡ʃe/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ak‧çe

Noun

akçe (definite accusative akçeyi, plural akçeler)

1. (historical) A small silver coin
2. any coin
3. (by extension) money

Declension

Declension of akçe

singular plural nominative akçe akçeler definite accusative akçeyi akçeleri dative akçeye akçelere locative akçede akçelerde ablative akçeden akçelerden genitive akçenin akçelerin Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular akçem akçelerim 2nd singular akçen akçelerin 3rd singular akçesi akçeleri 1st plural akçemiz akçelerimiz 2nd plural akçeniz akçeleriniz 3rd plural akçeleri akçeleri definite accusative singular plural 1st singular akçemi akçelerimi 2nd singular akçeni akçelerini 3rd singular akçesini akçelerini 1st plural akçemizi akçelerimizi 2nd plural akçenizi akçelerinizi 3rd plural akçelerini akçelerini dative singular plural 1st singular akçeme akçelerime 2nd singular akçene akçelerine 3rd singular akçesine akçelerine 1st plural akçemize akçelerimize 2nd plural akçenize akçelerinize 3rd plural akçelerine akçelerine locative singular plural 1st singular akçemde akçelerimde 2nd singular akçende akçelerinde 3rd singular akçesinde akçelerinde 1st plural akçemizde akçelerimizde 2nd plural akçenizde akçelerinizde 3rd plural akçelerinde akçelerinde ablative singular plural 1st singular akçemden akçelerimden 2nd singular akçenden akçelerinden 3rd singular akçesinden akçelerinden 1st plural akçemizden akçelerimizden 2nd plural akçenizden akçelerinizden 3rd plural akçelerinden akçelerinden genitive singular plural 1st singular akçemin akçelerimin 2nd singular akçenin akçelerinin 3rd singular akçesinin akçelerinin 1st plural akçemizin akçelerimizin 2nd plural akçenizin akçelerinizin 3rd plural akçelerinin akçelerinin

Derived terms

• ak akçe kara gün içindir
• geçer akçe
• kalp akçe
• kan akçesi
• teminat akçesi
• züyuf akçe

See also

• beyaz
• gümüş
• sarıca

Further reading

• “akçe”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “akçe”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “akçe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “akçe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 167