عِشْرَةٌ

Social, or familar, intercourse; fellowship; i. q. مُخَالَطَةٌ; (O, * K;) or a subst. from the latter word. (S, Msb.) Sometimes it governs as a verb, [like the verbal noun,] according to some grammarians, as in the following example:

بِعِشْرَتِكَ الكِرَامَ تُعَدُّ مِنْهُمْ

[By thine associating with the generous thou will be reckoned as one of them]. (I'Ak p. 211.)