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adaş.

namesake

4 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun/aˈdaʃ/[a̠ˈd̪a̠ʃ]

  1. namesake

  2. friend

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Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آداش. Cognate to Azerbaijani adaş, Bashkir аҙаш (aðaş), Kazakh адас (adas) and аттас (attas), Kyrgyz атташ (attaş), Southern Altai адаш (adaš), Tatar адаш (adaş), Turkmen adaş, Tuvan атташ (attaş), Uyghur ئاداش (adash), Uzbek adash. The second sense 'friend' is the etymologically older term, later supplanted by reanalysis by 'namesake' in contemporary Turkic langauges. Confer Old Turkic 𐽰𐽰𐽸𐽰𐽿 (ʾʾdʾš /⁠adaş⁠/, “friend, comrade; partner”).

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