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Noun

gece

1. night

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish گیجه ‎(gece, “night, evening”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] ‎(gece, “night”), from Proto-Turkic *gēče ‎(“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 gīje ‎(“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/.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɟe̞ˈdʒɛ]

Noun

gece ‎(definite accusative geceyi, plural geceler)

1. night

Declension

Antonyms

• gündüz

Related terms

Adverb

gece

1. at night, in the night, by night
2. nocturnally

Adjective

gece ‎(incomparable)

1. nocturnal