یاشداش
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From یاش (yaş, “age”) + ـداش (-daş, “companion”).
Noun
یاشداش • (yaşdaş)
- peer, someone who is approximately the same age as someone else
- Synonyms: اقران (akran), یاشیت (yaşıt)
Descendants
- Turkish: yaştaş
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yaşdaş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5241
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یاشداش”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 501a
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Coætaneus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[2], Vienna, column 193
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یاشداش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 5544
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاشداش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2186