köken: Inherited from Middle French amy, ami, from Old French ami, amic, from Latin amīcus (“(male) friend”). Compare Catalan amic, Italian amico, Portuguese amigo, Romanian amic, Sardinian amícu, Spanish amigo. Doublet of igo.
aile: ami avec bénéfices, ami·e, chambre d'ami, conseil d'ami, en ami, être bon ami, faire ami, gomi, meilleur ami, petit ami
Nous devons toujours être aux côtés de nos parents et de nos amis.
girl, lass (from the age of puberty to womanhood) · miss (informal but common form of address to a young woman; may also apply to middle-aged women working in the service industry, e.g., sales) · girlfriend
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (puštībān, “supporter, bodyguard”), analyzable in New Persian as پشت (pušt /pošt, “back”) + ـبان (-bān /-bân, “keeper, support, guard”). Compare Northern Kurdish piştevan.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- Proto-Indo-European *ǵéws-tōr ~ *ǵus-tr-és Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́awštā́ Proto-Iranian *jawštā́ Old Persian 𐎭𐎢𐏁𐎫𐎠 (d-u-š-t-a /dauštā/) Middle Persian 𐭣𐭥𐭮𐭲𐭩 (dwst' /dōst/) Classical Persian دوسْت (dōst)bor. Azerbaijani dost Borrowed from Classical Persian دوسْت (dōst), from Middle Persian 𐭣𐭥𐭮𐭲𐭩 (dwst' /dōst/), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎢𐏁𐎫𐎠 (d-u-š-t-a…
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian دوسْت (dōst), from Middle Persian 𐭣𐭥𐭮𐭲𐭩 (dwst' /dōst/), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎢𐏁𐎫𐎠 (d-u-š-t-a /dauštā/), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to taste, to try”). Compare also Kyrgyz дос (dos), Bashkir дуҫ (duś), Tatar дус (dus), Uzbek doʻst, Uyghur دوست (dost), Turkish dost; Dongxiang dosi; etc.
köken: First attested in the Beonyeok nogeoldae (飜譯老乞大 / 번역노걸대), 1517, as Middle Korean 도ᇰ모〮 (Yale: twòngmwó). May be ultimately of Sino-Korean origin, from 동모 (同謀, dongmo, “planning together; complotting; collusion”). Alternatively, it could be of native origin and influenced by 동 (同, dong, “together”); compare Japanese 友(とも) (tomo, “friend, pal”).
to help, assist, give assistance, lend a hand, aid · to help (someone get somewhere) · one better (not) do (often with muuta kuin to express that there is no other choice than to do something)
çekim: geçmiş auttanut · şimdiki auttaisi · ulaç auttava
köken: From Proto-Finnic *abuttadak, derived from *apu (“help”) (whence Finnish apu); equivalent to a(v)u- + -ttaa. Compare Estonian aitama.