geçit

Turkish

Etymology

From geç- (“to cross, to pass”) +‎ -it,[1] from Proto-Turkic *keč- (“to pass, to wade”).[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɟeˈt͡ʃit/
  • Hyphenation: ge‧çit

Noun

geçit (definite accusative geçidi, plural geçitler)

  1. crossover
  2. (geography) a narrow place where one may travel: pass; ford; narrows; isthmus
  3. the act of crossing or passing
  4. (military) parade
    • 1936 April 21, headline in Ulusal Birlik:
      Dün Berlin'de muazzam bir geçid resmi yapıldı
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Hyponyms

References
  1. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “geçit”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*geč-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading
  • “geçit”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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