خاص

Arabic

Root
خ ص ص (ḵ ṣ ṣ)
21 terms

Etymology

Derived from the active participle of خَصَّ (ḵaṣṣa, “to favor, to endow, to be characteristic of, to concern”).

Adjective

خَاصّ • (ḵāṣṣ) (feminine خَاصَّة (ḵāṣṣa), masculine plural خَاصُّونَ (ḵāṣṣūna), feminine plural خَاصَّات (ḵāṣṣāt) or خَوَاصُّ (ḵawāṣṣu), elative أَخَصّ (ʔaḵaṣṣ))

1. special
2. particular
3. specific
4. designated (بِ (bi) for)
5. characteristic (بِ (bi) of)
6. distinguished
7. private
8. exclusive

Declension

Declension of adjective خَاصّ (ḵāṣṣ)

singular	masculine		feminine
	basic singular triptote		singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
informal	خَاصّ ḵāṣṣ	الْخَاصّ al-ḵāṣṣ	خَاصَّة ḵāṣṣa	الْخَاصَّة al-ḵāṣṣa
nominative	خَاصٌّ ḵāṣṣun	الْخَاصُّ al-ḵāṣṣu	خَاصَّةٌ ḵāṣṣatun	الْخَاصَّةُ al-ḵāṣṣatu
accusative	خَاصًّا ḵāṣṣan	الْخَاصَّ al-ḵāṣṣa	خَاصَّةً ḵāṣṣatan	الْخَاصَّةَ al-ḵāṣṣata
genitive	خَاصٍّ ḵāṣṣin	الْخَاصِّ al-ḵāṣṣi	خَاصَّةٍ ḵāṣṣatin	الْخَاصَّةِ al-ḵāṣṣati
dual	masculine		feminine
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
informal	خَاصَّيْن ḵāṣṣayn	الْخَاصَّيْن al-ḵāṣṣayn	خَاصَّتَيْن ḵāṣṣatayn	الْخَاصَّتَيْن al-ḵāṣṣatayn
nominative	خَاصَّانِ ḵāṣṣāni	الْخَاصَّانِ al-ḵāṣṣāni	خَاصَّتَانِ ḵāṣṣatāni	الْخَاصَّتَانِ al-ḵāṣṣatāni
accusative	خَاصَّيْنِ ḵāṣṣayni	الْخَاصَّيْنِ al-ḵāṣṣayni	خَاصَّتَيْنِ ḵāṣṣatayni	الْخَاصَّتَيْنِ al-ḵāṣṣatayni
genitive	خَاصَّيْنِ ḵāṣṣayni	الْخَاصَّيْنِ al-ḵāṣṣayni	خَاصَّتَيْنِ ḵāṣṣatayni	الْخَاصَّتَيْنِ al-ḵāṣṣatayni
plural	masculine		feminine
	sound masculine plural		sound feminine plural‎; basic broken plural diptote
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
informal	خَاصِّين ḵāṣṣīn	الْخَاصِّين al-ḵāṣṣīn	خَاصَّات‎; خَوَاصّ ḵāṣṣāt‎; ḵawāṣṣ	الْخَاصَّات‎; الْخَوَاصّ al-ḵāṣṣāt‎; al-ḵawāṣṣ
nominative	خَاصُّونَ ḵāṣṣūna	الْخَاصُّونَ al-ḵāṣṣūna	خَاصَّاتٌ‎; خَوَاصُّ ḵāṣṣātun‎; ḵawāṣṣu	الْخَاصَّاتُ‎; الْخَوَاصُّ al-ḵāṣṣātu‎; al-ḵawāṣṣu
accusative	خَاصِّينَ ḵāṣṣīna	الْخَاصِّينَ al-ḵāṣṣīna	خَاصَّاتٍ‎; خَوَاصَّ ḵāṣṣātin‎; ḵawāṣṣa	الْخَاصَّاتِ‎; الْخَوَاصَّ al-ḵāṣṣāti‎; al-ḵawāṣṣa
genitive	خَاصِّينَ ḵāṣṣīna	الْخَاصِّينَ al-ḵāṣṣīna	خَاصَّاتٍ‎; خَوَاصَّ ḵāṣṣātin‎; ḵawāṣṣa	الْخَاصَّاتِ‎; الْخَوَاصِّ al-ḵāṣṣāti‎; al-ḵawāṣṣi

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: խաս (xas)
  • Armenian: խաս (xas)
• → Azerbaijani: xas
• → Bengali: খাস (khaś)
• → Gujarati: ખાસ (khās)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: ख़ास (xās)

  Urdu: خاص (xās)

• → Marathi: खास (khās)
• → Malay: khas
  • → Indonesian: khas
• → Northern Kurdish: xas
• → Persian: خاص
• → Punjabi: ਖ਼ਾਸ (xās)
• → Tulu: ಖಾಸ (khāsa)
• → Turkish: has
  • → Greek: χάσικος (chásikos)
• → Somali: xaas
• → Swahili: hasa
• → Uzbek: xos

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “خاص”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic خَاصّ (ḵāṣṣ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaːsˤsˤ/

Adjective

خاص • (ḵāṣṣ) (feminine خاصة (ḵāṣṣa), common plural خواص (ḵawāṣṣ), masculine plural خاصين (ḵāṣṣīn), feminine plural خاصات (ḵāṣṣāt), elative أخص (ʔaḵaṣṣ))

1. special
2. particular
3. specific
4. designated (ب (b-) for)
5. characteristic (ب (b-) of)
6. private

Preposition

خاص • (ḵāṣṣ)

1. (false verb) should; need

   خاصني نمشي للمكتبة باش ناخد داك الكتاب اللي هدرت لك عليه.

   ḵāṣṣni namši l-el-maktaba bāš nāḵud dāk l-ektāb elli hdartlak ʕlīh

   I need to go to the library to get the book I've talked to you about.

   خاصه يجمع راسه قبل ما يفوت الفوت.

   ḵāṣṣu yijmaʕ rāsu qbal ma yfūt el-fūt

   He needs to get his shit together before it is too late.

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic خَاصّ (ḵāṣṣ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /has/

Adjective

خاص • (has)

1. special
2. particular, specific
3. genuine

Descendants

• Turkish: has

Persian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic خَصَّ (ḵaṣṣa)

Arabic خَاصّ (ḵāṣṣ)bor.

Persian خاص

Borrowed from Arabic خَاصّ (ḵāṣṣ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xɒːs/

Adjective

Dari	خاص
Iranian Persian
Tajik	хос

خاص • (xāss / xâss) (comparative خاص‌تَر, superlative خاص‌تَرین, Tajik spelling хос)

1. special
2. particular
3. specific

Noun

خاص • (xāss / xâss) (Tajik spelling хос)

1. (dialectal, Transoxiana) prostitute, whore

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic خَصَّ (ḵaṣṣa)

Arabic خَاصّ (ḵāṣṣ)bor.

Classical Persian خَاصّ (xāss)bor.

Urdu خاص (xās)

Borrowed from Classical Persian خَاصّ (xāss), borrowed from Arabic خَاصّ (ḵāṣṣ), from خَصَّ (ḵaṣṣa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xɑːs/
• Rhymes: -ɑːs

Adjective

خاص • (xās) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ख़ास)

1. special
2. particular, specific
3. extraordinary
4. peculiar

Further reading

• “خاص”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “خاص”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “خاص”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “خاص”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879), “خاص”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834), “خاص”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC