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yoʻldosh

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Uzbek

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Other scripts
Yangi Imlo يولداش
Cyrillic йўлдош
Latin yoʻldosh
Perso-Arabic
(Afghanistan)
یۉلداش

Etymology

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Inherited from Chagatai یولداش (/⁠yōldāš⁠/). By surface analysis, yoʻl (road) +‎ -dosh (suffix of common possession). Cognate with Uyghur يولداش / yoldash / йолдаш; Turkish yoldaş; Kazakh جولداس / жолдас (joldas), Kyrgyz جولدوش / жолдош (joldoş); etc.

The sense ‘satellite’ is a semantic loan from Russian спу́тник (spútnik).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /jol.dɒʃ/, [jɵl.d̪ɒ̽ʃ]
  • Hyphenation: yoʻl‧dosh

Noun

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yoʻldosh (plural yoʻldoshlar)

  1. fellow traveller
  2. satellite

Declension

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