نچه

• نچند (nečänd), نچن (nečän), نیچه (nečä)

From Proto-Turkic *nēče (“how many”). Cognate with Turkmen näçe, Tatar ничә (niçä), Kazakh неше (neşe), Kumyk нече (neçe), Kyrgyz нече (nece), Azerbaijani neçə, Turkish nice, Khakas нинӌе (nince), Tuvan чеже (çeje).

نچه • (nečä)

1. several
   • 15th century, Ali-Shir Nava'i, تأریخ انبیاء و حکماء [tä'rīx-i änbiyā' wa hukämā', History of the Prophets and Sages]:

     اول مدت دقیانوس جهنمگا باریب، نچه پادشاهلار گردیش بولوب، بر خداپرست عابد پادشاهغا سلطنت یتکاندا، اصحاب کهف تنگری تعالی امری بله اویغانمیشلار.

     ul muddät däqyānūs jähännämgä barıb, nečä pādıšāhlar gärdiš bolub, bir xudā-päräst ābıd pādıšāhġa sältänät yätkändä, äshāb-i kähf tängri tä'ālā ämri billä oyġanmıšlar.

     During that time, Decius went to hell. Several kings succeeded him, and when the throne came to a God-worshipping king, by God’s command the Companions of the Cave awoke.

نچه • (nečä)

1. (interrogative) how much

   Synonym: قانچه (qanča)

2. (interrogative) how many

• Uzbek: necha
• Uyghur: نەچچە (nechche)

• Schluessel, Eric (2015), “how many”, in Digital glossary of Eastern Turki‎^[1]

• نَجَه (nẹce), نِیجَه
• نِیچَه (nẹçe)

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *nēče.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnet͡ʃɛ/

نَچَه • (nẹçe)

1. (interrogative) how, how many

نَچَه • (nẹçe)

1. many
   • 14th Century, Dresden Manuscript:Kitâb-ı Dedem Korkut Âlâ Lîsân-ı Tâife-i Oğuzân:

     وَ دَخِی نَچَه بُوكَه بَكْزَرْ سُوزْ سُویْلَدِی

     ve daḫı buŋa beŋzer nẹçe söz söyledi.

     And he said many more words like this

• Azerbaijani: neçə, necə
• Gagauz: nicä
• Ottoman Turkish: نیچه (niçe), نچه (neçe), نیجه (nece, nice), نجه (nice)
  • Turkish: nice
  • → Armenian: նէչէ (nēčʻē)
  • → Crimean Tatar: nice