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صُحْبَةٌ

Root: صحب

Full Definition

صُحْبَةٌ an Verbal.Noun of صَحِبَهُ [q. v.].
2 [As a simple subst., Companionship. Hence, لَهُ صُحْبَةٌ, often occurring in biographies as meaning He had companionship with the Prophet; i. e. he was one of the Companions of the Prophet. And خَرَجْتُ صُحْبَةَ الرَّسُولِ, frequently occurring in trads., meaning I went forth in the companionship of the Apostle, or in company with the Apostle. Hence also] one says, حَمَلْتُ الكِتَابَ صُحْبَتِى [I carried the book with me]. صُحْبَةُ السَّفِينَةِ [The companionship of the ship] is a post-classical phrase, denoting, by way of comparison, that which has no permanence.
3 See also صَاحِبٌ, of which it is a quasipl. n.
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