What is "adashev"

Adashev (; masculine) or Adasheva (; feminine) is a Russian last name.

There are three theories regarding the origins of this last name. The most plausible one relates it to a Turkic word adaš, meaning namesake, comrade, friend. It is also possible that this last name derives from nickname "" (Adash), itself derived from a Vologda and Yaroslavl dialectal word "" (adat), meaning to cry, to yell. Finally, it could have developed from the diminutive forms of the Christian first names Adrian and Adam.

• Alexey Adashev, friend of Tsar Ivan the Terrible involved in the creation of the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible
• Rajab Adashev, who starred in Abdullajon, a 1991 Uzbek science fiction comedy