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tovarish en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /tɒˈvɑːɹɪʃ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Sogdian 𐫕𐫁𐫀𐫡 (θbʾr)bor. Proto-Turkic *tabar Turkicbor. Proto-Slavic *tovarъ Proto-Slavic *-iščь Proto-Slavic *tovariščь Old East Slavic товарищь (tovariščĭ) Russian това́рищ (továrišč)bor. English tovarish Borrowed from Russian това́рищ (továrišč).

Meanings

1. Comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR.
   • The tovarishes bring along their harmonicas and balalaikas, their good voices and their good humor. 1999, Livia Bitton-Jackson, I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust, Simon Pulse, →ISBN:
   • His Russian was derived from a fortnight's crash course. "You'd better see what this ah tovarish thinks he wants." 1989, Anthony Burgess, “Pedwar”, in Any Old Iron, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, 1990, →ISBN, page 173:
   • Touching one of them on the shoulder, she said, “Tovarish, these tovarishes want to know who you are.” 1938, Margaret Sanger, Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography:
   • Instead of addressing them according to revolutionary etiquette as Tovarish (comrade), he asked them their Christian names and that of their fathers, while telling them his own. 1919 December 6, The Times, p.10 col. C:
   • Jensen laughed, “My wife complains: ‘All day long they ring our door bell. Tovarish here, tovarish there. They come from Moscow, from Leningrad, from Berlin and Hamburg. They don't speak one word of Danish. Comrade Jensen, they say, fix us up with Danish passports.’ So it goes.″ 1940, Jan Valtin, Out of the Night, Kessinger Publishing Company, published 2005, page 436:

Forms

Translations (28)

cmn 達瓦里希 (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · cs továrišč (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · vi tovaris (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · de Towarischtsch (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · sh tovariš (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · ro tovarăș (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · ko 토바리슈 (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · sl tovariš (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · nl tovaritsj (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · hy տավարիշ (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · ar تَاوَارِيش (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · fi toveri (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · ru това́рищ (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · ko 토바리시 (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · hy տովարիշ (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · ja トバリシチ (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · fr tovarich (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · ka თავარიშ (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · be тава́рыш (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · pl towarzysz (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · pl towarzyszka (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · cmn 達瓦里氏 (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · fa تاواریش (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · pt tovariche (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · sh товариш (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · yi טאָוואַרישטש (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · bg това́риш (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade) · uk това́риш (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)