# مخصوص
## Arabic
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /max.sˤuːsˤ/
* Rhymes: -uːsˤ

### Adjective

مَخْصُوص • (maḵṣūṣ) (feminine مَخْصُوصَة (maḵṣūṣa), masculine plural مَخْصُوصُونَ (maḵṣūṣūna), feminine plural مَخْصُوصَات (maḵṣūṣāt))
* private, characteristic
* special, specific

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: məxsus
* → Bashkir: махсус (maxsus)
* → Persian: مخصوص
* → Tajik: махсус (maxsus)
* → Ottoman Turkish: مخصوص (mahsus)
** Turkish: mahsus
** → Armenian: մախսուս (maxsus)
** → Ladino: mahsús
* → Turkmen: mahsus
* → Uyghur: مەخسۇس (mexsus)
* → Urdu: مخصوص
* → Uzbek: maxsus

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَخْصُوص (maḵṣūṣ, “private, characteristic”).

### Adjective

مخصوص • (mahsus)
* specific, proper, particular, pertaining exclusively to a specific thing or person
    Synonym: خصوصی (hususî)
* reserved, assigned, dedicated, set aside for a particular person, purpose, or use

### Adverb

مخصوص • (mahsus)
* on purpose, deliberately, intentionally, purposely, by design, as opposed to by accident

#### Derived terms

* حال مخصوص (hal mahsus, “particular case”)
* مخصوص اولمق (mahsus olmak, “to be special to”)
* مخصوص ایتمك (mahsus etmek, “to make special to”)
* مخصوصاً (mahsusen, “especially, particularly”)
* مخصوصیت (mahsusiyet, “property, characteristic”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: mahsus
* → Armenian: մախսուս (maxsus)
* → Ladino: mahsús

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “مخصوص”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 744
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mahsus2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3021
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mahsûs”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 681
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مخصوص”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1136
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Particularis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1245
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مخصوص”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4487
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mahsus”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مخصوص”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1778

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَخْصُوص (maḵṣūṣ).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [max.suːs]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäx.suːs]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäx.suːs]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mäx.suːs]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mäx.sus]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [mæx.suːs]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mäχ.sus]

### Adjective

مخصوص • (maxsus)
* private, characteristic

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَخْصُوص (maḵṣūṣ).

### Adjective

مخصوص • (maxśūś) (Hindi spelling मख़्शूश)
* private, characteristic