خاصیت

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خَاصِّيَّة‎ (ḵāṣṣiyya, “feature”)

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xɑː.sij.jat]

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

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xɒː.sij.jæt̪]

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

Readings
Classical reading^?	xāsiyyat
Dari reading^?	xāsiyyat
Iranian reading^?	xâsiyyat
Tajik reading^?	xosiyyat


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

References

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

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