خاصیت

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خَاصِّيَّة (ḵāṣṣiyya).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /xaː.sij.ˈjat/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɑː.si.jät̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xɑː.si.jät̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xɔː.si.jät̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xɒː.si.jæt̪ʰ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χɔ.si.jät̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	xāsiyyat
Dari reading^?	xāsiyat
Iranian reading^?	xâsiyat
Tajik reading^?	xosiyat


Iranian Persian	خاصیت
Dari	خاصیت
Tajik	қосият

Noun

خاصیت • (xâsiyyat) (plural خصائص (xasâ'es))

property, feature, nature
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 231:
  گرگ را خود خاصیت بدریدن است
  این حسد در خلق آخر روشن است
  gurg rā xwad xāsiyyat bi-darīdan ast
  īn hasad dar xalq āxir rawšan ast
  To rend is the instinct of the wolf:
  after all, this envy is conspicuous in mankind.”
virtue

Descendants

→ Hindustani:
Hindi: ख़ासियत (xāsiyat), खासियत (khāsiyat) — nuqtaless

Urdu: خاصیت (xāssiyat)
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਖ਼ਾਸੀਅਤ (xāsīat), ਖਾਸੀਅਤ (khāsīat) (nuqtaless)

Shahmukhi script: خاصیت (xāṣṣiyat)

References

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