sahib

• Sahib

From Hindustani صاحب / साहिब (sāhib, “lord”), from Classical Persian صاحب (sāhib), from Arabic صَاحِب (ṣāḥib, “companion”).

sahib (plural sahibs)

1. (historical) A term of respect for a white European or other man of rank in colonial India.

   Coordinate term: memsahib

   • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 52:

     One day when the Man's Wife and the Tertium Quid had just arrived in the Cemetery, they saw some coolies breaking ground. They had marked out a full-size grave, and the Tertium Quid asked them whether any Sahib was sick. They said that they did not know; but it was an order that they should dig a Sahib's grave.

   • 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 7, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 177:

     One must never forget that one is a Sahib, and that some day, when examinations are passed, one will command natives.

   • 1923, Rasool Galwan, Servant of Sahibs‎^[1], Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, page 25:

     After, went to sahib and packed up sahib's things. We had four hire-ponies; three for loads, and one for sahib to ride. Sahib had a Chinese saddle, that he put on a high horse.

• memsahib
• pukka sahib
• sahibdom
• sahibji

• sahib on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “sahib”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 781.

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish صاحب (ṣāḥib), from Arabic صَاحِب (ṣāḥib).

• IPA^(key): [sɑˈhib]
• Hyphenation: sa‧hib

• Audio:

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sahib (definite accusative sahibi, plural sahiblər)

1. owner, possessor

   Synonym: yiyə

   dükan sahibi ― shop owner

   oğul-uşaq sahibi (idiomatic)

   a married person, someone with a family

   (literally, “possessor of son and child”)

• sahib olmaq (“to possess”)
• sahiblik (“ownership”)

• sahibə

sahib

1. to own, possess, have

   Murad Volkswagen markalı maşına sahibdir. ― Murad owns a car of the brand Volkswagen.

   Synonym: malik

*imək (“to be”) being a defective verb, its missing forms are supplied by the present simple copulas (appearing as suffixes), and by olmaq. The actual infinitive form would be sahib olmaq, as the verb olmaq serves as infinitive form of *imek and itself.

sahib m (plural sahibs)

1. sahib

• “sahib”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English sahib.

sahib m (invariable)

1. sahib