یولداش
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From یول (yol, “road, street”) + ـداش (-daş, “companion”).
Noun
یولداش • (yoldaş)
- fellow traveller, one who travels together with another
- Synonyms: رفیق (refik), همراه (hemrah)
- (by extension) companion, fellow, mate, comrade
- Synonyms: رفیق (refik), قولداش (koldaş), همراه (hemrah)
- (formerly) fellow janissary, companion in battle
Derived terms
- یولداشسز (yoldaşsız, “without companion”)
- یولداشلق (yoldaşlık, “companionship”)
Descendants
- Turkish: yoldaş
- → Armenian: յոլդաշ (yoldaš)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yoldaş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5354
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “یولداش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1367
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Sodalis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1566
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “یولداش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5634
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yoldaş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یولداش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2219