صاحب

Active participle of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba, “to accompany”), from the root ص ح ب (ṣ-ḥ-b).

• IPA^(key): /sˤaː.ħib/

صَاحِب • (ṣāḥib) m (plural أَصْحَاب (ʔaṣḥāb) or صُحْبَان (ṣuḥbān) or صِحَاب (ṣiḥāb) or صَحْب (ṣaḥb), feminine صَاحِبَة (ṣāḥiba))

1. associate, companion, comrade, friend

   صَاحِبِي فِي الْعَمَلِ مُسَاعِدٌ جَيِّدٌ وَنَتَعَاوَنُ مَعًا بِشَكْلٍ مُمْتَازٍ.

   ṣāḥibī fī l-ʕamali musāʕidun jayyidun wanataʕāwanu maʕan bišaklin mumtāzin.

   My colleague at work is a helpful and cooperative person, and we work together in a harmonious manner.

2. adherent, follower
3. (with a following genitive) man, owner, possessor, holder, master, lord, commander, representative, author

   Synonym: ذُو (ḏū)

   Hyponym: مَالِك (mālik)

4. inhabitant, dweller
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 9:70:

     أَلَمْ يَأْتِهِمْ نَبَأُ الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ قَوْمِ نُوحٍ وَعَادٍ وَثَمُودَ وَقَوْمِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَأَصْحَابِ مَدْيَنَ وَالْمُؤْتَفِكَاتِ ۚ أَتَتْهُمْ رُسُلُهُم بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ ۖ فَمَا كَانَ اللَّهُ لِيَظْلِمَهُمْ وَلَٰكِن كَانُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ

     ʔalam yaʔtihim nabaʔu allaḏīna min qablihim qawmi nūḥin waʕādin waṯamūda waqawmi ʔibrāhīma waʔaṣḥābi madyana wālmuʔtafikāti ʔatathum rusuluhum bi-l-bayyināti famā kāna l-lahu liyaẓlimahum walākin kānū ʔanfusahum yaẓlimūna

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5. warden
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 74:31:

     وَمَا جَعَلْنَا أَصْحَابَ النَّارِ إِلَّا مَلَائِكَةً […]

     wamā jaʕalnā ʔaṣḥāba an-nāri ʔillā malāʔikatan […]

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• يَا صَاحِ (yā ṣāḥi)

• Maltese: sieħeb
• → Armenian: սոհբաթ (sohbatʻ)
• → Azerbaijani: sahib
• → Indonesian: sohib
• → Ottoman Turkish: صاحب
  • Turkish: sahip
  • → Middle Armenian: սահիպ (sahip)
  • Crimean Tatar: sahip, saip
• → Pashto: صيب
• → Persian: صاحب
  • → Bengali: সাহেব (śaheb)
  • → Gujarati: સાહેબ (sāheb)
  • → Hindustani: sāhib, sāhab, sāhb, sāb

    Hindi: साहिब, साहब

    Urdu: صاحب

    • → English: sahib
    • → Phalura: سیب (seéb)
    • → Ushojo: صیب (seb)
  • → Marathi: साहेब (sāheb)
  • → Punjabi: ਸਾਹਬ / صاحب (sāhab)
  • → Rajasthani: सायब
  • → Uzbek: sohib
• → Swahili: sahibu

• صَدِيق (ṣadīq)

صَاحَبَ • (ṣāḥaba) III, non-past يُصَاحِبُ‎ (yuṣāḥibu)

1. To accompany, to go with

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “صحب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic صَاحِب (ṣāḥib).

• IPA^(key): /sˤaː.ħib/, [sˤaː.ħɪb]

صاحِب • (ṣāḥib) m (plural أصْحاب (ʔaṣḥāb), feminine صاحْبة (ṣāḥba))

1. friend, companion

   أنا مَع صَاحْبي

   ʔana maʕ ṣāḥbi

   I'm with my friend

2. (with a following genitive) owner, possessor, representative

From Arabic صَاحِب (ṣāḥib).

• IPA^(key): /sˤaːħɪb/

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صاحب • (ṣāḥeb) m (plural صحاب (ṣḥāb), feminine صاحبة (ṣāḥba), diminutive صحيب (ṣḥiyyab))

1. friend

   Synonym: عشير (ʕšīr)

From Arabic صَاحِب (ṣāḥib).

صاحب • (sahib)

1. owner

• Turkish: sahip
• → Middle Armenian: սահիպ (sahip)
• Crimean Tatar: sahip, saip

Borrowed from Arabic صَاحِب (ṣāḥib).

صاحِب • (sâheb) (plural صاحبان (sâhebân) or صاحب‌ها (sâheb-hâ))

1. owner; master

   Synonym: مالک (mâlek)

   صاحب ماشین ― sâheb-e mâšin ― owner of the car

2. author

   Synonym: نویسنده (nevisande)

3. (Dari, India, very formal, otherwise dated) sir; mister; gentleman

   Synonyms: آقا (âqâ), جناب (janâb) (Dari)

4. Used, usually without the ezâfe, to form compound nouns meaning "those who possess [trait]" or "those who are distinguished by [trait]".

   ‎صاحب (sâheb) + ‎دل (del, “heart”) → ‎صاحبدل (sâhebdel, “pure-hearted person; empathetic person”)

   ‎صاحب (sâheb) + ‎سخن (soxan, “speech”) → ‎صاحب سخن (sâheb soxan, “speaker”)

• → Bengali: সাহেব (śaheb)
• → Gujarati: સાહેબ (sāheb)
• → Hindustani: sāhib, sāhab, sāhb, sāb

  Hindi: साहिब, साहब

  Urdu: صاحب

  • → English: sahib
  • → Phalura: سیب (seéb)
  • → Ushojo: صیب (seb)
• → Marathi: साहेब (sāheb)
• → Punjabi: ਸਾਹਬ / صاحب (sāhab)
• → Rajasthani: सायब
• → Uzbek: sohib

From Arabic صَاحِب (ṣāḥib).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /säː˦bᵊ/

صاحب • (sāhab) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਸਾਹਿਬ)

1. master
2. owner
3. lord

   Synonym: مالک (mālak)

صاحب • (sāhab) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਸਾਹਿਬ)

1. (Sikhism) God
   • Guru Granth Sahib, Guru Nanak, translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa, ang 469:

     توں سچا صاحب صفت سوالیؤ جن کیتی سو پار پئیا

     tū̃ sachā sāhib sift suāliu jin kītī so pār peā

     You are the True Lord and Master; Your Praise is so beautiful. One who sings it, is carried across.

   Synonyms: ربّ (rab), واہےگُرو (wāhegurū)

From Arabic صَاحَبَ (ṣāḥaba).

• IPA^(key): /sˤaː.ħab/, [ˈsˤɑː.ħɑb]

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صاحب • (ṣāḥab) III (present بصاحب (biṣāḥeb))

1. to befriend

   ما بحبّ تصاحب أولاد يستخدمو ألفاظ سيئة.

   mā baḥebb tṣāḥeb ʔawlād yistaḵdimu ʔalfāẓ sayʔa

   I don't like that you befriend kids who use cusswords.

2. (by extension) to become someone's boyfriend or girlfriend

From Arabic صَاحِب (ṣāḥib).

• IPA^(key): /sˤaː.ħeb/, [ˈsˤɑː.ħɪb]

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صاحب • (ṣāḥeb) m (plural أصحاب (ʔaṣḥāb) or صحاب (ṣḥāb), feminine صاحبة (ṣāḥbe))

1. friend, companion

   Synonym: صديق (ṣadīq)

2. (by extension) boyfriend
3. owner, possessor

   صاحب البيت ― ṣāḥeb il-bēt ― the landlord (literally, “the owner of the house”)

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Borrowed from Classical Persian صاحب (ṣāḥib), from Arabic صَاحِب (ṣāḥib).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sɑː.ɦɪb/
  • (obsolete) IPA^(key): /sɑː.ɦəb/
• (Punjabic Urdu) IPA^(key): /sɑːb/, /sɑː.ɦəb/
• Rhymes: -ɪb
• Hyphenation: صا‧حِب

صاحِب • (sāhib) m (feminine صاحبہ, Hindi spelling साहिब)

1. sir
2. mister
3. lord

• “صاحب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “صاحب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “صاحب”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.