خصوص

Arabic

Root
خ ص ص (ḵ-ṣ-ṣ)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xu.sˤuːsˤ/

Noun

خُصُوص • (ḵuṣūṣ) m

1. particularity, speciality, specialty, peculiarity
2. particular attachment, friendship, affection

Declension

Declension of noun خُصُوص (ḵuṣūṣ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خُصُوص ḵuṣūṣ	الْخُصُوص al-ḵuṣūṣ	خُصُوص ḵuṣūṣ
Nominative	خُصُوصٌ ḵuṣūṣun	الْخُصُوصُ al-ḵuṣūṣu	خُصُوصُ ḵuṣūṣu
Accusative	خُصُوصًا ḵuṣūṣan	الْخُصُوصَ al-ḵuṣūṣa	خُصُوصَ ḵuṣūṣa
Genitive	خُصُوصٍ ḵuṣūṣin	الْخُصُوصِ al-ḵuṣūṣi	خُصُوصِ ḵuṣūṣi

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: xüsus
• → Chagatai: خصوص
  • Uyghur: خۇسۇس (xusus)
  • Uzbek: xusus
• → Malay: khusus
  • Indonesian: khusus
• → Ottoman Turkish: خصوص
  • Turkish: husus
• → Persian: خصوص (xosus)
• → Urdu: خصوص (xusūs)
• → Swahili: hususan
• → Somali: xusuus

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “خصوص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “خصوص”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic خُصُوص (ḵuṣūṣ).

Noun

خصوص • (husus)

1. subject, matter
2. particularity

Descendants

• Turkish: husus

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خصوص”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 542
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “husus”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خُصُوص (ḵuṣūṣ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xu.suːs]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xʊ.suːs]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xʊ.suːs]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xʊ.suːs]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xu.sus]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xo.súːs]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χu.sus]

Readings
Classical reading?	xusūs
Dari reading?	xusūs
Iranian reading?	xosus
Tajik reading?	xusus

Noun

Dari	خصوص
Iranian Persian
Tajik	хусус

خصوص • (xosus)

1. peculiarity
2. concern, regard

Derived terms

• در خصوص (dar xosus-e)

Adverb

خصوص • (xosus)

1. especially, particularly

South Levantine Arabic

Root
خ ص ص
6 terms

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Arabic خُصُوص (ḵuṣūṣ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xsˤuːsˤ/, [xsˤuːsˤ]

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Noun

خصوص • (ḵṣūṣ) m

1. matter, regard (mainly used in derived terms)

Derived terms

• بخصوص (bi-ḵṣūṣ, “concerning, regarding”)
• خصوصا (ḵuṣūṣan, “especially, mainly”)
• خصوصي (ḵuṣūṣi, “special; personal, private”)