یولداش

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یول (yol, “road, street”) +‎ ـداش (-daş, “companion”).

Noun

یولداش • (yoldaş)

1. fellow traveller, one who travels together with another

   Synonyms: آیاقداش (ayakdaş), رفیق (refik), همراه (hemrah)

2. (by extension) companion, fellow, mate, comrade

   Synonyms: آیاقداش (ayakdaş), حریف (herif), رفیق (refik), قولداش (koldaş), همراه (hemrah)

3. (formerly) fellow janissary, companion in battle

Derived terms

• یولداشسز (yoldaşsız, “without companion”)
• یولداشلق (yoldaşlık, “companionship”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yoldaş
• → Albanian: jolldash
• → Armenian: յոլդաշ (yoldaš), յօլտաշ (yōltaš)
• → Serbo-Croatian: jòldāš / јо̀лда̄ш

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yoldaş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5354
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یولداش”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 515a
• 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