Jastrow: סִיחָה

סִיחָה, שִׂיחָה f. (b. h. שִׂ׳; סוּחַ) talk, conversation. B. Bath. 78ᵇ ואמאי קרי ליה סיח שמהלך אחר ס׳ נאה and why do they call a young ass sayyaḥ? Because it follows a persuasive talk (of its driver, whereas the old ass must be struck). Ib. (play on עיר סיחון, Num. XXI, 27) אם משים … כְּעַיִר שמהלך אחר ס׳ נאה if a man makes himself like (is as obedient as) the young ass that follows &c. Ib. (play on ער ib. 28) זה המהלך אחר יצרו … ס׳ נאה that is he who follows his evil inclination as the young ass follows &c. Snh. 94ᵃ (play on ס̇נח̇ר̇י̇ב̇) שסִיֹחָתוֹ ר̇י̇ב̇ whose talk is strife. Kidd. 71ᵇ כל שסיחתו בבבל he whose conversation shows that he is a Babylonian. Ḥag. 5ᵇ (ref. to Am. IV, 13) אפי׳ ש׳ יתירה וכ׳ even superfluous talk between husband and wife is brought up against man in his hour of death; Lev. R. s. 26 אפי׳ ש׳ קלה שאדם משיח וכ׳ even frivolous talk &c. Succ. 28ᵃ שִׂיחַת חולין profane (secular) talk. Yalk. Num. 764 שיחת כנענים the language of the Canaanites; a. fr.—Pl. סִיחוֹת, שִׂ׳. Y. Gitt. IX, end, 50ᵈ (ש׳) ס׳ בני אדם משיחין when people talk what people say (i.e. when you can trace the rumor; v. Bab. Gitt. 89ᵃ); a. e.