gecə
Azerbaijani
Cyrillic | ҝеҹə | |
---|---|---|
Abjad | گئجه |
Etymology
From Old Anatolian Turkish کیجه (gejä), Proto-Turkic *gēč (-e) (“night, evening, yesterday”)[1]. Cognite with Turkish gece (“night”), Turkmen gije, Crimean Tatar gece, Tatar кичә (kiçä, “yesterday”), Uyghur كەچە (keche), Kazakh кеш (keş, “evening”), Kyrgyz кеш (keş, “evening, late”).
Noun
gecə (definite accusative gecəni, plural gecələr)
- night
- martın 9-dan (doqquzundan) 10-na (onuna) keçən gecə ― the night between the 9th and the 10th of March
Declension
Declension of gecə
Possessive forms of gecə
Derived terms
- gecə-gündüz (“both day and night”)
References
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gēč (-e)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill