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صَاحِبٌ ذ A companion, an associate, a comrade, a fellow, or a friend; (A, MA, KL, TA;) a fellow-traveller: (MA:) [an accomplice: (assumed tropical:) an accompanier, or attendant, as applied to a thing:] and (tropical:) a lord, or master; a possessor, an owner, an occupant, a haver, or a proprietor; of anything: (A, TA:) it is not trans. like the verb, therefore you may not say, زَيْدٌ صَاحِبٌ عَمْرًا; (TA;) [i. e.] it is not used as an act. part. n., but as a subst., like وَالِدٌ; (Ham p. 32:) the pl., (S, Msb,) or term applied to a pl. number, (A, K, TA,) is ↓ صَحْبٌ , (S, A, Msb, K,) a pl. like رَكْبٌ of رَاكِبٌ, (S,) or [rather] a quasi-pl. n., (TA,) and أَصْحَابٌ, [the most common of all,] (A, Msb,) a pl. like أَشْهَادٌ of شَاهِدٌ, (TA,) or pl. of صَحْبٌ, like أَفْرَاخٌ of فَرْخٌ, (S,) and أَصَاحِيبُ, (S, K,) pl. of أَصْحَابٌ, (S,) and صُحْبَانٌ, (S, K,) a pl. like شُبَّانٌ of شَابٌّ, (S,) and صِحَابٌ, (S, A, K,) a pl. like جِيَاعٌ of جَائِعٌ, (S,) and صِحَابَةٌ, (A, K,) in which the ة may be regarded, agreeably with analogy, as an affix to the pl. صِحَابٌ characteristic of the fem. gender, (TA,) and ↓ صَحَابَةٌ , (S, A, Msb, K,) which is more common than صِحَابَةٌ, (TA,) but the only instance of فَعَالَةٌ as the pl. measure of a word of the measure فَاعِلٌ, (L, TA,) or originally an inf. n., (S,) or not so, but a quasi-pl. n., though written like the inf. n. [that is said to be its original], (from a marginal note in a copy of the S,) and ↓ صُحْبَةٌ , (S, A,) a pl. like فُرْهَةٌ of فَارِهٌ, (S, TA,) or [rather] a quasi-pl. n.: (TA:) the fem. is صَاحِبَةٌ, and its pl. is صَوَاحِبُ and صَوَاحِبَاتٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) the latter mentioned by AAF on the authority of Abu-l- Hasan: (TA:) hence, in a trad. of 'Áïsheh, أَنْتُنَّ صَوَاحِبُ يُوسُفَ [Ye are the female companions, or the mistresses, of Joseph; meaning, enticers to lewdness]; or, as some relate it, صَوَاحِبَاتُ يُوسُفَ: (Mgh:) the dim. of صَاحِبٌ is ↓ صُوَيْحِبٌ (A) [and that of صَاحِبَهٌ is ↓ صُوَيْحِبَةٌ ]. يَاصَاحِ for يَاصَاحِبِى [O my companion, &c.,] is the only allowable instance of such curtailing of a prefixed noun, related as heard from the Arabs. (S, TA.) One says, فُلَانٌ صَاحِبُ صِدْقٍ [Such a one is a good companion, &c.]. (A, * TA.) [And صَاحِبُ جَيْشِ The commander of an army. And صَاحِبُ البَرِيدِ and صَاحِبُ الشُّرْطَةِ &c.: see arts. برد and شرط &c. And الصَّاحِبُ, alone, in post-classical times applied to The Wezeer, when an officer of the pen: see De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., sec. ed., ii. 59.] And صَاحِبُ اليَمِينِ [The companion of the right hand] and صَاحِبُ الشِّمَالِ [The companion of the left hand]; appellations of each man's recording angels, who write down his good and evil actions. (A trad. thus commencing in the Jámi' es-Sagheer.) And صَاحِبُ الصُّورِ (assumed tropical:) The angel who is the possessor of the horn. (Idem.) [And صَاحِبُ بَيْتٍ (assumed tropical:) The owner, or master, of a house or tent.] And أَصْحَابُ الجَنَّةِ (assumed tropical:) [The inmates, or occupants, of Paradise]: (Kur ii. 76, &c.:) and أَصْحَابُ النَّارِ (assumed tropical:) [The inmates, &c., of the fire of Hell]. (Kur ii. 37, &c.) And صَاحِبُ سِجْنٍ (assumed tropical:) An inmate of a prison. (Bd and Jel in xii. 39.) And صَاحِبُ الصَّفِّ وَالجُمْعَةِ (assumed tropical:) He who keeps to praying in the first rank and to the prayer of Friday. (El-Munáwee on a trad. thus commencing in the Jámi' es-Sagheer.) And أَصْجَابُ الشَّافِعِىِّ (tropical:) The followers of the persuasion of EshSháfi'ee: and in like manner one says of the followers of other persuasions. (Msb.) [And صَاحِبُ كِتَابٍ (assumed tropical:) The author of a book.] And صَاحِبُ عِلْمٍ وَمَالٍ (tropical:) A possessor of science and of wealth. (A, TA.) And صَاحِبُ وِتْرٍ (assumed tropical:) [One who has a claim for blood-revenge: see an ex. in a verse cited voce دَرَّاكٌ]. (Keys Ibn-Rifá'ah, TA in art. درك.) [And صَاحِبُ أَمْرٍ وَنَهْىٍ (assumed tropical:) One who possesses authority to command and to forbid. And صَاحِبُ أَمْرٍ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The author of an affair or event or action; the doer of a thing; the manager, or disposer, thereof: and one who keeps, or adheres, to a thing. And صَاحِبُ دَيْنٍ (assumed tropical:) A debtor.] And one says, خَرَجَ وَصَاحِبَاهُ السَّيْفُ وَالرُّمْحُ (tropical:) [He went forth, the sword and the spear being his companions]. (A, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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