lifelong partner, significant other · companion · friend, buddy, pal
çekim: çoğul compagnons
köken: Inherited from Old French compaignon, from Late Latin compāniōnem (literally “he with whom one shares one's bread”) (compare Italian compagnone, Spanish compañón), from com- (“with”) + pānis (“bread”), first attested in the Frankish Lex Salica as a calque of a Germanic word represented by Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰 (gahlaiba, “messmate”) from 𐌲𐌰- (ga-, “with”) + 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃 (hlaifs, “bread”), Old High German…
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾšnwʾk' /āšnāg/, “known”), ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). Note also Old Persian [script needed] (ašnaiy, “near”). Possibly akin to Old Armenian Աշնակ (Ašnak, a male given name). Related to شناختن (šenâxtan, “to know, to be acquainted with”).
köken: From the verb tanï- "to know, be familiar with" (compare Old Turkic [script needed] (tanï-, “know, be familiar”), from Proto-Turkic *tanu- (“to know”). Cognate with Bashkir таныш (tanış), Kyrgyz тааныш (taanış), Uzbek tanish (“known, acquainted”), Turkish tanış, etc.
çekim: karşılaştırma mer bekant · üstünlük mest bekant
köken: Borrowed from German bekannt (“known, acquainted”), from Middle High German bekant, past participle of bekennen (“to know; to make known”). The verb also developed the sense “to confess” in German, which was separately loaned into Swedish as bekänna. Here the Swedish past participle is bekänd (“confessed”).
köken: Either a loan from Yiddish חבֿר (khaver, “friend, boyfriend”), or a blend of kamraati + toveri. The former of these is now considered more likely. The word is also attested in the sense “companion (in crime)”, so it may have originated in argot.
Inherited from Old Polish znajomy, from Proto-Slavic *znajemъ, present passive participle of *znàti (“to be acquainted with, to know”). By surface analysis, znać + -omy.