Etymology
From یولداش (yoldaş, “companion, fellow, mate”) + ـلق (-lık, -luk, “-ness, -ship”).
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yoldaşlık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5354
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یولداشلق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 515a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یولداشلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1367
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sodalitas”, 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) “یولداشلق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5634
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یولداشلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2219