tovarishch

tovarishch

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɒˈvɑːɹɪʃt͡ʃ/

Noun

tovarishch (plural tovarishches)

1. Alternative form of tovarish
   • 1963, Jews and the Jewish People‎, page 69:

     The people were surprised that the old Moshka had business with tovarishch Commissar.

   • 1963, Jacob Klein-Haparash, He Who Flees the Lion‎, page 84:

     Yes, a watch, and this tovarishch has given it to me.

   • 1989, Anthony Burgess, “Dau”, in Any Old Iron, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, 1990, →ISBN, page 82:

     ["]As for Spain, do you honestly think" (she was addressing Reg) "that there's a desire on the part of Tovarishch Stalin to save Catalonian anarchism and syndicalism and liberal socialism? I shouldn’t be surprised if Moscow gold is helping to finance Franco."

   • 2004, Wesley Adamczyk, When God Looked the Other Way‎, page 45:

     “I will remember, tovarishch,” I answered uncertainly, not knowing how I should address him.

   • 2010, Patrik Ouředník, Alex Zucker, transl., Case Closed‎, page 131:

     There's no other way, tovarishch, no other way!