gecə

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic ҝеҹə
Roman gecə
Perso-Arabic گئجه

Etymology

From 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)

  1. night
    martın 9-dan (doqquzundan) 10-na (onuna) keçən gecəthe night between the 9th and the 10th of March

Declension

Derived terms

  • gecə-gündüz (both day and night)

References

  1. 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
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