صحبت

صحبت (form I)

1. صَحِبْتُ (ṣaḥibtu) /sˤa.ħib.tu/: first-person singular past active of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba)
2. صَحِبْتَ (ṣaḥibta) /sˤa.ħib.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba)
3. صَحِبْتِ (ṣaḥibti) /sˤa.ħib.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba)
4. صَحِبَتْ (ṣaḥibat) /sˤa.ħi.bat/: third-person feminine singular past active of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba)
5. صُحِبْتُ (ṣuḥibtu) /sˤu.ħib.tu/: first-person singular past passive of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba)
6. صُحِبْتَ (ṣuḥibta) /sˤu.ħib.ta/: second-person masculine singular past passive of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba)
7. صُحِبْتِ (ṣuḥibti) /sˤu.ħib.ti/: second-person feminine singular past passive of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba)
8. صُحِبَتْ (ṣuḥibat) /sˤu.ħi.bat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba)

Borrowed from Arabic صُحْبَة (ṣuḥba, “accompaniment, friendship”).

صحبت • (sohbet) (definite accusative صحبتی (sohbeti), plural صحبتلر (sohbetler))

1. conversation, chat, talk, banter, dialogue, discussion, interlocution, expression and exchange of ideas through talking with other people

   Synonyms: لقردی (lakırdı), محبت (muhabbet)

• Turkish: sohbet
• → Armenian: սօհպէթ (sōhpētʻ)
• → Ladino: sohbet

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “صحبت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 201
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “sohbet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4283
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “sohbet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1150
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “صحبت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 756
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Conversatio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 279
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “صحبة”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2936
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “sohbet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “صحبت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1168

Borrowed from Arabic صُحْبَة (ṣuḥba, “accompaniment, friendship”).

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صحبت • (suhbat / sohbat) (Tajik spelling сӯҳбат)

1. talk, speech
2. company (of someone), companionship, accompaniment
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 124:

     در جهان بس که به غم صحبت من در پیوست
     باورم نیست که جز غم بجهان چیزی هست

     dar jahān bas ki ba ġam suhbat-i man dar paywast
     bāwaram nīst ki juz ġam ba-jahān čīzē hast

     So much have I been bound to the company of grief in the world
     That I do not believe that anything exists in the world except for grief.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• In Dari, this term is often reserved for formal settings and is uncommon in casual speech.

• → Azerbaijani: söhbət
• → Chagatai: سحبت (sḥbt /⁠suhbät⁠/)
  • Uyghur: سۆھبەت (söhbet)
  • Uzbek: suhbat
• → Marathi: सोबत (sobat)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: सोहबत (sohbat)

  Urdu: صُحْبَت (suhbat)

• → Kazakh: сұхбат (sūxbat)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “صحبت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Borrowed from Classical Persian صحبت, from Arabic صُحْبَة (ṣuḥba).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sʊɦ.bət̪/, [sɔɦ.bət̪]

صُحْبَت • (suhbat) f (Hindi spelling सुहबत)

1. companionship, society, company
2. discourse, conversation

• “صحبت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “صحبت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.