خاصه

See also: خاصة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic خَاصَّة (ḵāṣṣa).

Noun

خاصه • (hassa) (plural خصایص)

peculiarity, characteristic
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] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 527a

Persian

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /xaːs.ˈsa/

(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))

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)

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

Etymology 2

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

Adverb

خاصه • (xâsse)

(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 ġam, 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