friend in the same business (male or of unspecified gender) · crony (male or of unspecified gender)
çekim: çoğul Kumpane · tamlayan Kumpans
köken: From Middle High German kompān, kumpān, from Old French compain (“friend; companion”), from Late Latin compāniō (literally “he with whom one shares one's bread”), from com- + pānis (with + bread).
köken: Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl āchichinqui, from ātl (“water”) + chichinqui (“sucker, sucking”), the original sense was that of a mine operator which oversaw the contention of underground water in mineshafts.