çete

See also: cete, četa, and -cete

Turkish

Etymology

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

çete (definite accusative çeteyi, plural çeteler)

  1. armed band (of irregulars, partisans, guerrillas, bandits, brigands)
  2. gang

Declension

Inflection
Nominative çete
Definite accusative çeteyi
Singular Plural
Nominative çete çeteler
Definite accusative çeteyi çeteleri
Dative çeteye çetelere
Locative çetede çetelerde
Ablative çeteden çetelerden
Genitive çetenin çetelerin
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular çetem çetelerim
2nd singular çeten çetelerin
3rd singular çetesi çeteleri
1st plural çetemiz çetelerimiz
2nd plural çeteniz çeteleriniz
3rd plural çeteleri çeteleri
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular çeteyim çetelerim
2nd singular çetesin çetelersin
3rd singular çete
çetedir		 çeteler
çetelerdir
1st plural çeteyiz çeteleriz
2nd plural çetesiniz çetelersiniz
3rd plural çeteler çetelerdir

Further reading

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