companion

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• /kəmˈpæn.jən/
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• CMU ARPABET: K AH0 M P AE1 N Y AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English companion, from Old French compaignon (“companion”) (modern French compagnon), from Late Latin compāniōn- (nominative singular compāniō, whence French copain), from com- + pānis (literally, with + bread), a word first attested in the Frankish Lex Salica as a calque of a Germanic word, probably Frankish *galaibo, *gahlaibō (“messmate”, literally “with-bread”), from Proto-Germanic *gahlaibô. Compare also Old High German galeipo (“messmate”) and Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰 (gahlaiba, “messmate”); and, for the semantics, compare Old Armenian ընկեր (ənker, “friend”, literally “messmate”). More at co-, loaf. Displaced native Old English ġefēra (literally “fellow traveler”). Compare company and mate.

197 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: صَاحِب (ṣāḥib) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Arabic: صَاحِبَة (ṣāḥiba) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Armenian: ուղեկից (uġekicʻ) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Armenian: ընկեր (ənker) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Azerbaijani: şərik — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Azerbaijani: yoldaş — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Azerbaijani: ortaq — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Bashkir: иптәш (iptəş) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Basque: lagun — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Belarusian: кампаньён (kampanʹjón) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Belarusian: кампаньёнка (kampanʹjónka) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Belarusian: спадаро́жнік (spadaróžnik) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Belarusian: спадаро́жніца (spadaróžnica) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Bengali: সঙ্গী (śoṅgi) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Central Bikol: kaiba — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Bulgarian: придружи́тел (pridružítel) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Bulgarian: придружи́телка (pridružítelka) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Bulgarian: компаньо́н (kompanjón) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Bulgarian: компаньо́нка (kompanjónka) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Burmese: အဖော် (a.hpau) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Catalan: acompanyant — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Catalan: company — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Catalan: companya — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Chamicuro: lota'c̈homa — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Chinese Mandarin: 伴侶 /伴侣 (bànlǚ) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Chinese Mandarin: 同伴 (tóngbàn) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Choctaw: ahinna — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Corsican: cumpagnu — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Czech: společník — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Czech: společnice — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Danish: ledsager — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Dutch: metgezel — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Egyptian: sn-n:nw-w-Z1-Z1 (snnw) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Esperanto: kunulo — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Esperanto: kompano — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Estonian: kaaslane — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Finnish: toveri — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Finnish: seuralainen — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Finnish: kumppani — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• French: compagnon — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• French: compagne — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Galician: compañeiro — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Georgian: თანამგზავრი (tanamgzavri) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Georgian: კომპანიონი (ḳomṗanioni) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• German: Gefährte — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• German: Gefährtin — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• German: Gspaane — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌸𐌾𐌰 (gasinþja) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌾𐌿𐌺𐌰 (gajuka) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Greek: σύντροφος (sýntrofos) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Ancient Greek: ἑταῖρος (hetaîros) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Ancient Greek: ἑταίρα (hetaíra) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Hindi: साथी (sāthī) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Hindi: सहचर (sahcar) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Hindi: सहचरी (sahacrī) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Hindi: हमसफ़र (hamsafar) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Hindi: हमराह (hamrāh) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Hungarian: társ — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Icelandic: félagi — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Ido: kompano — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Indonesian: teman — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Irish: caidreamhach — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Istriot: cunpagno — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Italian: amico — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Italian: compagno — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Japanese: 仲間 (nakama) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Japanese: 友人 (yūjin) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Japanese: 同伴者 (dōhansha) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Kapampangan: kayabe — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Kazakh: серік (serık) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Kazakh: жолдас (joldas) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Khmer: ដៃគូ (day kuu) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Khmer: សហការី (saʼhaʼkaarəy) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Korean: 동반자 (dongbanja) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Korean: 길벗 (gilbeot) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Korean: 길동무 (gildongmu) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Korean: 반려자 (ballyeoja) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Central Kurdish: ئاواڵ (awall) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Central Kurdish: ھاورێ (hawrê) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Northern Kurdish: hevrê — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Northern Kurdish: heval — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Northern Kurdish: hogir — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Kyrgyz: шерик (şerik) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Kyrgyz: жолдош (joldoş) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Lao: ສະຫາຽ (sa hāi) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Lao: ວະຍັດ (wa nyat) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Lao: ສະຂິ (sa khi) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Latin: comes — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Latin: socius — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Latvian: pavadonis — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Latvian: biedrs — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Latvian: biedre — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Latvian: biedrene — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Lithuanian: palydovas — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Lithuanian: palydovė — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Macedonian: компањо́н (kompanjón) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Macedonian: компањо́нка (kompanjónka) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Malay: teman — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Māori: takahoa — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Mongolian: хамтрагч (xamtragč) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Mongolian: нөхөр (nöxör) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Mongolian: түнш (tünš) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Norwegian Bokmål: ledsager — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Old English: ġefēra — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Pashto: شريک (šarik) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Pashto: ملګری (mëlgëray) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Iranian Persian: دوسْت (dust) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Iranian Persian: مونِس (munes) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Iranian Persian: هَمْدَم (hamdam) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Iranian Persian: یار (yâr) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Iranian Persian: ایرْمان (irmân) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Iranian Persian: شَریک (šarik) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Iranian Persian: هَمْکار (hamkâr) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Iranian Persian: هَمْراه (hamrâh) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Iranian Persian: رَفیق (rafiġ) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Polish: towarzysz — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Polish: towarzyszka — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Polish: kompan — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Polish: kompanka — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Polish: wspólnik — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Polish: wspólniczka — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Portuguese: acompanhante — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Portuguese: companheiro — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Romanian: tovarăș — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Russian: това́рищ (továrišč) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Russian: компаньо́н (kompanʹón) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Russian: компаньо́нка (kompanʹónka) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Russian: спу́тник (spútnik) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Russian: спу́тница (spútnica) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Sanskrit: द्वितीय (dvitīya) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Serbo-Croatian: компа̀њо̄н — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Serbo-Croatian: компа̀њо̄нка — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Serbo-Croatian: kompànjōn — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Serbo-Croatian: kompànjōnka — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Sicilian: cumpagnu — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Sicilian: cumpari — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Slovak: spoločník — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Slovak: spoločnica — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Slovak: spoločníčka — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Slovene: tovariš — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Slovene: tovarišica — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Slovene: spremljevalec — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Slovene: spremljevalka — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Spanish: compañero — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Spanish: compañera — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Spanish: cousín — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Spanish: parcero — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Spanish: asere — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Spanish: acere — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Spanish: chero — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Swahili: rafiki — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Swedish: följeslagare — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Tagalog: apungot — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Tagalog: kasama — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Tajik: дӯст (düst) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Tajik: ҳамдам (hamdam) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Tajik: ёр (yor) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Tajik: эрмон (ermon) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Tajik: ҳамроҳ (hamroh) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Tajik: шарик (šarik) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Tajik: ҳамкор (hamkor) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Tajik: рафиқ (rafiq) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Tarifit: amedukker — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Tatar: иптәш (iptäş) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Tatar: юлдаш (yuldaş) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Tausug: iban — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Thai: สหาย (sà-hǎai) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Turkish: yoldaş — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Turkish: arkadaş — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Turkish: şerik — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Turkish: ortak — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Ottoman Turkish: یولداش (yoldaş) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Ottoman Turkish: رفیق (refik) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Ottoman Turkish: قولداش (koldaş) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Ottoman Turkish: آیاقداش (ayakdaş) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Ottoman Turkish: حریف (herif) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Ottoman Turkish: شریك (şerik) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Turkmen: şärik — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Turkmen: ýoldaş — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Ugaritic: 𐎈𐎁𐎗 (ḥbr) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎓 (rʿ) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Ukrainian: компаньйо́н (kompanʹjón) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Ukrainian: компаньйо́нка (kompanʹjónka) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Ukrainian: това́риш (továryš) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Ukrainian: супу́тник (supútnyk) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Ukrainian: супу́тниця (supútnycja) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Urdu: ساتھی (sāthī) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Urdu: ہَمْسَفَر (hamsafar) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Urdu: ہَمْراہ (hamrāh) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Urdu: شَرِیک (śarīk) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Urdu: رَفِیق (rafīq) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Uyghur: شىرىك (shirik) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Uyghur: يولداش (yoldash) — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Uzbek: sherik — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Uzbek: hamroh — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Uzbek: yoʻldosh — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
• Vietnamese: bầu bạn — someone with whom one spends time or keeps company