çete
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "cete"
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Serbo-Croatian četa, from Ottoman Turkish چته (çete, “raid, loot”), attested before 1512. According to Nişanyan the South Slavic četa is a borrowing from Ottoman Turkish and it is derived from çat-/çet- “to hit, strike, steal”, see more at çatmak or its reciprocal form çatışmak (“to conflict”). /a/>/e/ or /ı/>/i/ transformation in words containing "/ç/" or "/ş/" is common in Turkish.
Noun
[edit]çete (definite accusative çeteyi, plural çeteler)
Declension
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Hyponyms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “çete”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çete”, in Nişanyan Sözlük