çete

Significado (Inglés)

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

Frecuencia

B2
Etimología (Inglés)

In summary

Borrowed 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.

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