خاصه

See also: خاصة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic خَاصَّة (ḵāṣṣa).

Noun

خاصه • (hassa) (plural خصایص)

1. peculiarity, characteristic
2. Short for عساكر خاصه (asakir hassa, “imperial guard”).

Descendants

• Turkish: hassa

Further reading

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “hassa”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خاصه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 527a

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xɑːs.ˈsa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɑːs.sǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɑːs.sǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xɑːs.sǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xɔːs.sǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xɒːs.sé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χɔs.sǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	xāssa
Dari reading?	xāssa
Iranian reading?	xâsse
Tajik reading?	xossa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic خَاصَّة (ḵāṣṣa).

Noun

خاصه • (xâsse) (plural خواص (xavâs))

1. peculiarity, characteristic, property

   Synonyms: ویژگی (vižegi), خصوصیات (xosusiyyât)

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 194:

     تا نشد خون دل زارم نشد از درد خلاص
     شربت هجر ترا نیست بجز مرگ خواص

     tā na-šud xūn-i dil zāram na-šud az dard xalās
     šarbat-i hajr-i tu-rā nēst ba-juz marg xawās

     I will find no liberation from pain until the blood of my heart is mournful;
     The potion of departing from you has no features except for death.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Adjective

خاصه • (xâsse)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of خاص (xâs, “special, particular”), used only for feminine Arabic loanwords.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic خَاصَّةً (ḵāṣṣatan). Apparently a spelling pronunciation.

Adverb

خاصه • (xâsse)

1. (archaic) particularly, specially, all the more

   Synonym: مخصوصاً (maxsusan)

   • c. 1911, Mohammad Hossein Âğuli Torki-ye Shirâzi, دیوان ترکی شیرازی‎^[2]:

     باده برد زنگ غم، از دل پیر و جوان
     خاصه به فصل بهار، خاصه ز دست نگار

     bâde barad zang-e ğam, az del-e pir o javân
     xâsse be fasl-e bahâr, xâsse ze dast-e negâr

     Wine takes away the rust of sadness from the hearts of old and young,
     All the more in the season of spring, all the more from the hand of a beauty.

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “خاصه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim