# صحبت
## Arabic
### Verb

صحبت (form I)
* صَحِبْتُ (ṣaḥibtu) /sˤa.ħib.tu/: first-person singular past active of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba)
* صَحِبْتَ (ṣaḥibta) /sˤa.ħib.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba)
* صَحِبْتِ (ṣaḥibti) /sˤa.ħib.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba)
* صَحِبَتْ (ṣaḥibat) /sˤa.ħi.bat/: third-person feminine singular past active of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba)
* صُحِبْتُ (ṣuḥibtu) /sˤu.ħib.tu/: first-person singular past passive of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba)
* صُحِبْتَ (ṣuḥibta) /sˤu.ħib.ta/: second-person masculine singular past passive of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba)
* صُحِبْتِ (ṣuḥibti) /sˤu.ħib.ti/: second-person feminine singular past passive of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba)
* صُحِبَتْ (ṣuḥibat) /sˤu.ħi.bat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of صَحِبَ (ṣaḥiba)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

صحبت • (sohbet) (definite accusative صحبتی (sohbeti), plural صحبتلر (sohbetler))
* conversation, chat, talk, banter, dialogue, discussion, interlocution, expression and exchange of ideas through talking with other people
    Synonym: محبت (muhabbet)

#### Derived terms

* حلوا صحبتی (helva sohbeti, “social feast at which halva is the main dish”)
* صحبت ایتمك (sohbet etmek, “to chat or converse with”)

#### Descendants

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

### Further reading

* 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 (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1150
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صحبت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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, 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, Vienna, column 2936
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sohbet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صحبت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1168

## Persian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [suh.bat]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [so̞ɦ.bät̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [so̞ɦ.bät̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [sʊ.bät̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [su.bät̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [soɦ.bæt̪]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [sɵh.bät̪]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

صُحْبَت • (sohbat)
* talk, speech
* 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 هستdar jahān bas ki ba ğam suhbat-i man dar paywast bāwaram nīst ki juz ğam ba-jahān čīzē hastSo 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