gereç

Turkish

Etymology

Coined during the language reform; appears in Cep Kılavuzu (1935). Created either via gerek (“necessity”) +‎ -ç and simply leaving out the final /k/, or by calque of Arabic مَادَّة‎ (mādda), related to مَدَّ‎ (madda, “to extend, to stretch”), which in turn was taken as a model for ger- (“to extend, to stretch”) +‎ -ç.[1]. See also araç. In favor of the first possibility would speak the fact that gereç was glossed as levazım (“necessities”) in Cep Kılavuzu[2].

Noun

gereç

  1. equipment, supply
  2. material

Declension
Inflection
Nominative gereç
Definite accusative araci
Singular Plural
Nominative gereç gereçler
Definite accusative araci gereçleri
Dative arace gereçlere
Locative gereçte gereçlerde
Ablative gereçten gereçlerden
Genitive aracin gereçlerin
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular aracim gereçlerim
2nd singular aracin gereçlerin
3rd singular araci gereçleri
1st plural aracimiz gereçlerimiz
2nd plural araciniz gereçleriniz
3rd plural gereçleri gereçleri
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular aracim gereçlerim
2nd singular gereçsin gereçlersin
3rd singular gereç
gereçtir		 gereçler
gereçlerdir
1st plural araciz gereçleriz
2nd plural gereçsiniz gereçlersiniz
3rd plural gereçler gereçlerdir

References
  1. Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 112
  2. “gereç”, in Türkçeden Osmanlıcaya Cep Kılavuzu [Pocket Guide from Turkish to Ottoman Turkish] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Devlet basımevi, 1935, page 130
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