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Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ottoman Turkish آقچه. First attested in 1743.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
akcze n (indeclinable)
- (historical) (historical) akçe (a silver coin minted during the Ottoman Empire, valued at one-third of a para)
References
- ^ Krystyna Siekierska (17.10.2019) “ACHCZE”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
Further reading
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “achce”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- Antoni Stanisław Waga (1850) Nazwiska monet u różnych narodów i w różnych wiekach używane (in Polish), page 3
- akcze in PWN's encyclopedia