companion (someone with whom one spends time or keeps company) · mate, colleague; (with a qualifier) fellow X, classmate, coworker, etc. (someone with whom something is shared) · fellow member of a political group; comrade
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish compannero, from companna (“company, entourage”). Analyzable as compaña (“company”) + -ero. Compare Portuguese companheiro.
köken: Learned borrowing from Byzantine Greek συνάδελφος (sunádelphos, “member of a (military) company”), from Ancient Greek συνάδελφος (sunádelphos, “who has siblings”), with semantic loan from French confrère. By surface analysis, συν- (syn-) + αδελφός (adelfós).
friend, pal · ally, partner · comrade (fellow communist or other political leftist)
çekim: çoğul साथियों
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀢𑁆𑀣𑀺𑀅 (satthia), from Sanskrit सार्थिक (sārthika), from सार्थ (sārtha) + -इक (-ika). Compare Nepali साथी (sāthī), Marathi साथी (sāthī), and Sindhi ساٿِي (sāthī). Synchronically analyzable as साथ (sāth) + -ई (-ī).
köken: Borrowed from Russian това́рищ (továrišč), from Old East Slavic товарищь (tovariščĭ), from Proto-Slavic *tovarišь, from *tovarъ + *-iščь, from a Turkic root.
friend, companion, buddy (person with whom one associates often, shares mutual trust and attachment) · colleague, associate, partner, comrade (person with whom one shares work, interests, or goals) · peer, equal (person in the same social position or collective)
çekim: çoğul друга́ри
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *draugás Proto-Slavic *drȗgъ Old Church Slavonic дроугъ (drugŭ) Bulgarian друг (drug) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Gothic -𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 (-areis)bor. Proto-Slavic *-ařь Bulgarian -ар (-ar) Bulgarian другар From друг (drug) + -ар (-ar).