i. arkadaş, dost. She is a close friend of mine. (O yakın bir arkadaşımdır.)

One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem,
respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a
wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant.

One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also,
one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may
be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address.

One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a
project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce,
to poetry, to an institution.

A paramour of either sex.

To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to
befriend.