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Turkish
Etymology
Coined during the language reform; appears in Cep Kılavuzu (1935). Created either via gerek (“necessity”) + -ç and simply leaving out the final /k/, or by calque of Arabic مَادَّة (mādda), related to مَدَّ (madda, “to extend, to stretch”), which in turn was taken as a model for ger- (“to extend, to stretch”) + -ç.[1] See also araç. In favor of the first possibility would speak the fact that gereç was glossed as levazım (“necessities”) in Cep Kılavuzu.[2]
Noun
gereç
- equipment, supply
- material
Declension
References
- ^ Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 112
- ^ “gereç”, in Türkçeden Osmanlıcaya Cep Kılavuzu [Pocket Guide from Turkish to Ottoman Turkish] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Devlet basımevi, 1935, page 130