قولداش
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From قول (kol, “arm”) + ـداش (-daş, “companion”).
Noun
قولداش • (koldaş)
- associate, companion, fellow, mate, comrade
- Synonyms: رفیق (refik), همراه (hemrah), یولداش (yoldaş)
Descendants
- Turkish: koldaş
- → Armenian: խօլտաշ (xōltaš)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “koldaş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2718
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قولداش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 988
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “koldaş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قولداش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1497