Noun
- A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company <> aboki mai sha'awar hulɗa da wasu akan abu.
- His dog has been his trusted companion for the last five years. <> Karansa amintaccen ma'abucinsa ne tun shekaru biyar da suka wuce.
- (dated) A person employed to accompany or travel with another. <> ma'abucin tafiya, sahabi
- (nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
- (nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
- (topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
- (figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.
- (astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another.