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gece.

night

4 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun[ɟe̞ˈd͡ʒɛ]

  1. night

Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish كیجه, گیجه (gece, “night, evening”), from Old Anatolian Turkish كیجه (gejä, “night”), from Proto-Turkic *kēče (“night, evening”). Cognate to geç (“late”) and gecikmek (“to be late”). Compare Turkic cognates such as Old Turkic 𐰛𐰃𐰲𐰀 (kéče, “evening, late in the evening”), Karakhanid [script needed] (kéčē, “night, at night”), Turkmen gije (“night”), Yakut киэһэ (kiehe, “evening”), and Hungarian késik (“to be late”) a Turkic borrowing from the same root. Unrelated to geç- (“to pass”) which has a short /e/.

adv[ɟe̞ˈd͡ʒɛ]

  1. at night, in the night, by night

  2. nocturnally

Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish كیجه, گیجه (gece, “night, evening”), from Old Anatolian Turkish كیجه (gejä, “night”), from Proto-Turkic *kēče (“night, evening”). Cognate to geç (“late”) and gecikmek (“to be late”). Compare Turkic cognates such as Old Turkic 𐰛𐰃𐰲𐰀 (kéče, “evening, late in the evening”), Karakhanid [script needed] (kéčē, “night, at night”), Turkmen gije (“night”), Yakut киэһэ (kiehe, “evening”), and Hungarian késik (“to be late”) a Turkic borrowing from the same root. Unrelated to geç- (“to pass”) which has a short /e/.

adj[ɟe̞ˈd͡ʒɛ]

  1. nocturnal

    not-comparable
Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish كیجه, گیجه (gece, “night, evening”), from Old Anatolian Turkish كیجه (gejä, “night”), from Proto-Turkic *kēče (“night, evening”). Cognate to geç (“late”) and gecikmek (“to be late”). Compare Turkic cognates such as Old Turkic 𐰛𐰃𐰲𐰀 (kéče, “evening, late in the evening”), Karakhanid [script needed] (kéčē, “night, at night”), Turkmen gije (“night”), Yakut киэһэ (kiehe, “evening”), and Hungarian késik (“to be late”) a Turkic borrowing from the same root. Unrelated to geç- (“to pass”) which has a short /e/.

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