صَاحَبَaccompany

Example sentences

• إِذَا صَاحَبَهَا إِلَى الْقَبْرِ فِي اِنْحِدَارٍ،

  If it accompanied it down to the grave on a slope,

  صَاحَبَهَا — he accompanied it. A past-tense verb 'accompanied' carrying a third-person 'he', with -ha ('it') attached as its object. So subject and object are both folded into one word. The -ha points back to the person or soul accompanied to the grave, the grim companion of the scene.

  From: This World Is Short →

• فَإِذَا فَارَقَهُنَّ وَصَاحَبَ فُحُولَ الرِّجَالِ زَالَتْ عَنْهُ،

  So when he left them and kept company with virile men, it ceased from him.

  وَصَاحَبَ — and kept company with. This verb is fronted by an attached 'and' joining it to the previous action, with its 'he' subject built in. The 'and' links the two things he did. The verb supplies the keeping-company.

  From: On Foolishness and Wisdom →