قولداش

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قول (kol, “arm”) +‎ ـداش (-daş, “companion”).

Noun

قولداش • (koldaş)

1. associate, companion, fellow, mate, comrade

   Synonyms: آیاقداش (ayakdaş), 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^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 988
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “koldaş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولداش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1497