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.
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Tovarish
//tɒˈvɑːɹɪʃ//
Synonyms for "tovarish" (19 found)
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27 translations across 22 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَاوَارِيش noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Armenian
2 entries- տավարիշ noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
- տովարիշ noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Belarusian
1 entries- тава́рыш noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Bulgarian
1 entries- това́риш noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 達瓦里希 noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
- 達瓦里氏 noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Czech
1 entries- továrišč noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Finnish
1 entries- toveri noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
French
1 entries- tovarich noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Georgian
1 entries- თავარიშ noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
German
1 entries- Towarischtsch noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Japanese
1 entries- トバリシチ noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Korean
2 entries- 토바리슈 noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
- 토바리시 noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Persian
1 entries- تاواریش noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Polish
2 entries- towarzysz noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
- towarzyszka noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Portuguese
1 entries- tovariche noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Romanian
1 entries- tovarăș noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Russian
1 entries- това́рищ noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- tovariš noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
- товариш noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Slovene
1 entries- tovariš noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Ukrainian
1 entries- това́риш noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tovaris noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Yiddish
1 entries- טאָוואַרישטש noun (comrade, especially with reference to the former USSR — see also comrade)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Touching one of them on the shoulder, she said, “Tovarish, these tovarishes want to know who you are.”
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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.″
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His Russian was derived from a fortnight's crash course. "You'd better see what this ah tovarish thinks he wants."
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