bilhassa

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بالخاصه (bilhassa),[1] from Arabic بِالْخَاصَّة (bi-l-ḵāṣṣa), from بِـ (bi-) +‎ اَلْ (al-) +‎ خَاصَّة (ḵāṣṣa),[2] equivalent to bil- +‎ hassa (“specialty, feature”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbil.has.sa/
  • Hyphenation: bil‧has‧sa

Adverb

bilhassa

  1. especially, particularly

References
  1. Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالخاصه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 246
  2. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bilhassa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading
  • “bilhassa”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bilhassa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 608
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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