Inherited from Old Slovak tovariška. By surface analysis, товариш (tovariš) +‎ -ка (-ka).

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• Rhymes: -iʃka
• Hyphenation: то‧ва‧риш‧ка

товаришка (tovariška) f (related adjective товаришски)

1. female equivalent of товариш (tovariš): friend, comrade, (obsolete) spouse

   Synonym: пайташка (pajtaška)

• Medʹeši, H., Fejsa, M., Timko-Djitko, O. (2010) “товаришка”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy
• Fejsa, M., Šlemender, M., Čelʹovski, S. (2022) “comrade”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 61
• Fejsa, M., Šlemender, M., Čelʹovski, S. (2022) “friend”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 121

From това́риш (továryš) +‎ -ка (-ka). Compare Belarusian тава́рышка (taváryška), Polish towarzyszka.

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това́ришка • (továryška) f pers (genitive това́ришки, nominative plural товаришки́, genitive plural товаришо́к, male equivalent това́риш)

1. female equivalent of това́риш (továryš, “comrade”)

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “товаришка”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka