صحب

4 أَصْحَبْتُهُ قُلَانًا ذ [ I made such a one to be a companion, or an associate, to him ]. (A.) And أَصْحَبْتُهُ الشَّىْءَ (tropical:) I made the thing to be [ as it were ] a companion to him; (S, K, TA;) and so ↓ استصحبتهُ; as in the saying, استصحبته الكِتَابَ وَغَيْرَهُ (tropical:) I made the book, or writing, &c., to be [ as it were ] his companion. (S, * TA.) ― -b2- And اصحبهُ (tropical:) He did to him that which caused him to be a companion, or an associate, to him. (A, TA.) ― -b3- And (tropical:) He left upon it, namely, a skin, its hair, (S, A,) or its wool; not subjecting it to the process termed عَطْنٌ. (S.) ― -b4- See also 1, in three places. -A2- اصحب, intrans., He (a man) became one having a companion, or an associate: (K, TA: [in the latter said to be tropical; but, I think, without reason:]) and he was, or became, one having companions, or associates. (TA.) ― -b2- And [hence,] (tropical:) He (a man) had a son who had attained to manhood (S, A, TA) and so become like him: (TA;) i. e. he was alone, and became one having a companion; (A;) or as though his son became his companion. (TA.) ― -b3- And (tropical:) He (a camel, and a horse or similar beast, S, TA, or an animal, and a man to a man, A, TA *) became tractable, submissive, or obsequious, after being refractory, or incompliant; (S, A, TA;) [and so ↓ صَاحَبَ, as is implied by an explanation of its part. n. مُصَاحِبٌ; and ↓ استصحب, for] hence, (A,) one says also, اِسْتَصْعَبَ تُمَّ ا@سْتَصْحَبَ (tropical:) [ He was refractory, or incompliant: then he became tractable, submissive, or obsequious ]: (A, TA:) and accord. to A 'Obeyd, one says, ↓ صَحِبْتُ الرَّجُلَ, from الصُّحْبَةُ, and أَصْحَبْتُ [app. اصحبت لَهُ], meaning (assumed tropical:) I became tractable, submissive, or obsequious, to the man. (TA.) ― -b4- And, said of water, (tropical:) It became overspread with [ the green substance termed ] طُحْلُب. (S, A. *)