یاشداش

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یاش (yaş, “age”) +‎ ـداش (-daş, “companion”).

Noun

یاشداش • (yaşdaş)

1. 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