akçe
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English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آقچه (akça, akçe) (compare Turkish akçe).
Noun
akçe (plural akçes)
- A silver coin minted during the Ottoman Empire, valued at one-third of a para.
- 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 209:
- Worth the sum of two thousand two hundred akches, this is all a final gift to the said maiden if he fails to marry her within the appointed period of time.
- 2011, Christine Woodhead, editor, The Ottoman World:
- The corvée is an archaic feature, absent from later statutes, but the notion that 50 akçes was the rate of compensation due for loss of tithes lingered.
Translations
Ottoman silver coin
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Turkish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آقچه (aḳça, “silver money, coin, a third part of a para, anciently a real coin of much greater value and a day's pay for a soldier, now a mere money of account”),[1] ultimately from Proto-Turkic *āk (“white”).[2][3] Morphologically ak + -çe. Cognate with Tatar акча (aqça), Bashkir аҡса (aqsa), Kyrgyz акча (akca), Southern Altai акча (akča), Kumyk акъча (aqça), Karachay-Balkar ахча (axça), Crimean Tatar aqça, Kazakh ақша (aqşa), Khakas ахча (axça), Shor ақча, Tuvan акша (akşa, “money”), Chuvash укҫа (ukśa, “coin”), etc.
Pronunciation
Noun
akçe (definite accusative akçeyi, plural akçeler)
- (historical) A small silver coin
- any coin
- (by extension) money
Declension
| Inflection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | akçe | |
| Definite accusative | akçeyi | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | akçe | akçeler |
| Definite accusative | akçeyi | akçeleri |
| Dative | akçeye | akçelere |
| Locative | akçede | akçelerde |
| Ablative | akçeden | akçelerden |
| Genitive | akçenin | akçelerin |
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References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آقچه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 164
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Āk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “akçe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “akçe”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “akçe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 167