صاحب

Derived from the active participle of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba, “to accompany”)

• 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 llaḏīna 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 […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• يَا صَاحِ (yā ṣāḥi)

• Maltese: sieħeb
• → Chagatai: صاحب (ṣāḥib)
  • Uyghur: ساھىب (sahib)
  • Uzbek: sohib
• → Crimean Tatar: sahip, saip (through Ottoman Turkish or Chagatai)
• → Indonesian: sohib
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: صاحب
  • Azerbaijani: sahib
  • Gagauz: saabi
  • Ottoman Turkish: صاحب (sahib)
    • Turkish: sahip
    • → Albanian: sahib
    • → Middle Armenian: սահիպ (sahip)
• → Pashto: صيب
• → Persian: صاحب
  • → Bengali: সাহেব (śaheb), সাব (śab)
  • → Gujarati: સાહેબ (sāheb)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: साहिब (sāhib), साहब (sāhab)

    Urdu: صاحب (sāhib, sāhab, sāhb, sāb)

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

• صَدِيق (ṣadīq)

صَاحَبَ • (ṣāḥaba) III (non-past يُصَاحِبُ (yuṣāḥibu), verbal noun مُصَاحَبَة (muṣāḥaba) or صِحَاب (ṣiḥāb))

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

Borrowed from Arabic صَاحِب (ṣāḥib).

صاحب (ṣāḥib) (plural اصحاب (äṣḥāb))

1. owner, proprietor, possessor

   Synonyms: ایدی (idi), مالک (mālik), اهل (ähl)

   صاحب افعال ― ṣāḥib-i äf'āl ― owner of a job

   صاحب اسرار ― ṣāḥib-i äsrār ― keeper of secrets

2. someone who possesses a certain trait, character, etc.

• Uyghur: ساھىب (sahib)
• Uzbek: sohib

• Bahawudun, Muhemmettursun, Gheyurani, Ghenizat, Qadir, Isma'il, Ehet, Ablimit (2002) چاغاتاي تىلىنىڭ ئىزاھلىق لۇغىتى [Explanatory Dictionary of the Chagatai Language]‎^[1] (in Uyghur), Shinjang Xelq Neshriyati, →ISBN, page 374
• Demir, Necati, Aydoğdu, Özkan (2015) Oğuzname [Kazan Nüshası]: inceleme - metin - dizin - tıpkıbasım [Oğuzname [Kazan Manuscript]: analysis - text - index - facsimile], Istanbul: Kesit Yayınları, page 319

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/

• Audio:

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

1. friend

   Synonym: عشير (ʕšīr)

Borrowed from Arabic صَاحِب (ṣāḥib, “owner, possessor”).

صاحب • (ṣāḥib) (feminine صاحبه (ṣāḥibe), definite accusative صاحبی (ṣāḥibi), plural اصحاب (eṣḥāb))

1. owner, possessor, holder, proprietor, one who owns, holds, or possesses something

   Synonyms: ایه (iye), مالك (mālik), اسی (issi)

2. associate, companion, comrade, friend

   Synonyms: دوست (dōst), یار (yār), ولی (velī), ایل (ẹl), قولداش (qoldaş), قزاق (qazaq), اویا (uya), قوشداش (qoşdaş), اوكور (ögür)

   • 1330, Âşık Paşa, Garib-nâme:

     اَنْدَنْ صُكْرَه بَلْكِمْ عُلَمآءِ شَرِيعَتْ وَاَبْنآءِ طَرِيقَتْ وَاَصْحَابِ حَقِيقَتْ • وَمَشَايِخْ وَاَوْلِيَا وَاَصْفٖیَا اَنْلَركِمْ مُبَارِزِ دِينْ وَسِبَاعِ غَابَۀِ يَقِينْ • وَأِمَامِ اَهْلِ اِيمَانْ وَمُقْتَدَایِ قَافِلَۀِ اِسْلَامْ‌دُرْلَرْ

     andan soŋra bil-kim ʼülemā-i şerīʼet ve-ebnā-i ṭerīqet ve-eṣḥāb-i ḥeqīqet, ve-meşāyiḫ ve-evliyā ve-eṣfiyā anlar-kim mübāriz-i dīn ve-sibāʼ-i ġābe-i yeqīn ve-imām-ı ehl-i īmān ve-müqtedā-yı qāfile-i islām-durlar

     and then know that the ulema of Islam and the founders of sects and true friends and followers and walis and all the poeple in the right path; all the defenders and heroes of the religion are the ones that follow behind the heads of the followers of Islam and the collective of Islam

3. speaker; someone who accompanies one in a conversation

• Azerbaijani: sahib
• Gagauz: saabi
• Ottoman Turkish: صاحب (sahib)
  • Turkish: sahip
  • → Albanian: sahib
  • → Middle Armenian: սահիպ (sahip)

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish صاحب (sahib), from Arabic صَاحِب (ṣāḥib, “owner, possessor”).

صاحب • (sahib) (feminine صاحبه (sahibe), definite accusative صاحبی (sahibi), plural اصحاب (eshab, ashab) or (informal) صاحبلر (sahibler))

1. owner, possessor, holder, proprietor, one who owns, holds, or possesses something

   Synonyms: ایكه (iğe, iye), مالك (malik)

2. patron, protector, an influential or wealthy person who protects or supports someone

   Synonym: حامی (hami)

• Turkish: sahip
• → Albanian: sahib
• → Middle Armenian: սահիպ (sahip)

Borrowed from Arabic صَاحِب (ṣāḥib).

صاحِب • (sâheb) (plural صاحبان, or صاحب‌ها)

1. owner; master

   Synonym: مالک (mâlek)

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

2. author

   Synonym: نویسنده (nevisande)

3. (with the ezâfe) parent (of)

   صاحب یک پسر و دختر هستم.

   sâheb-e yek pesar o doxtar hastam.

   I am the parent of a son and a daughter.

4. (Dari, Indo-Persian, very formal, otherwise dated) sir; mister; gentleman

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

5. 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), সাব (śab)
• → Gujarati: સાહેબ (sāheb)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: साहिब (sāhib), साहब (sāhab)

  Urdu: صاحب (sāhib, sāhab, sāhb, sāb)

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

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

   Synonyms: ربّ (rab), واہےگُرو (wāhegurū)

From Arabic صَاحَبَ (ṣāḥaba).

• IPA^(key): /sˤaː.ħab/, [ˈsˤɑː.ħɑb]

• Audio (al-Lidd):

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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]

• Audio (Jerusalem):

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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”)

   Audio (Ramallah):

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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, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “صاحب”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.