صحبت

Arabic

Verb

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)

Persian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [suh.bat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [so̞ɦ.bät̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [so̞ɦ.bät̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sʊ.bät̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [su.bät̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [soɦ.bæt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sɵh.bät̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	suhbat
Dari reading?	sohbat
Iranian reading?	sohbat
Tajik reading?	sühbat

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Dari	صحبت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	сӯҳбат

صُحْبَت • (sohbat)

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 ğam suhbat-i man dar paywast
     bāwaram nīst ki juz ğam 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)

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• صُحْبَت کَرْدَن (sohbat kardan)

 

Further reading

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