akçe

Meaning

1. (historical) A small silver coin
2. any coin
3. (broadly) money

Concepts

mite

lucre

change

coin

🪙

coins

asper

akçe

cash

💸

Synonyms

para

💸

dirhem

gümüş para

pul

sikke

akça

Hyphenated as

ak‧çe

Pronounced as (IPA)

/akˈt͡ʃe/

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: آقچه

Cognate with Tatar: акча

Cognate with Bashkir: аҡса

Cognate with Kyrgyz: акча

Cognate with Southern Altai: акча

Cognate with Kumyk: акъча

Cognate with Karachay-Balkar: ахча

Cognate with Crimean Tatar: aqça

Cognate with Kazakh: ақша

Cognate with Khakas: ахча

Cognate with Shor: ақча

Cognate with Tuvinian: акша

Cognate with Chuvash: укҫа

In summary

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”), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *āk (“white”). 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.