# خاص
## Arabic
### Etymology

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

### Adjective

خَاصّ • (ḵāṣṣ) (feminine خَاصَّة (ḵāṣṣa), masculine plural خَاصُّونَ (ḵāṣṣūna), feminine plural خَاصَّات (ḵāṣṣāt) or خَوَاصُّ (ḵawāṣṣu), elative أَخَصّ (ʔaḵaṣṣ))
* special
* particular
* specific
* designated (بِ (bi) for)
* characteristic (بِ (bi) of)
* distinguished
* private
* exclusive

#### Descendants

* → Middle Armenian: խաս (xas)
** Armenian: խաս (xas)
* → Azerbaijani: xas
* → Bengali: খাস (khaś)
* → Gujarati: ખાસ (khās)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: ख़ास (xās)
    Urdu: خاص (xās)
* → Marathi: खास (khās)
* → Malay: khas
** → Indonesian: khas
* → Northern Kurdish: xas
* → Persian: خاص
* → Punjabi: ਖ਼ਾਸ (xās)
* → Tulu: ಖಾಸ (khāsa)
* → Turkish: has
** → Greek: χάσικος (chásikos)
* → Somali: xaas
* → Swahili: hasa
* → Uzbek: xos

#### References

* Wehr, Hans (1979) “خاص”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic خَاصّ (ḵāṣṣ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xaːsˤsˤ/

### Adjective

خاص • (ḵāṣṣ) (feminine خاصة (ḵāṣṣa), common plural خواص (ḵawāṣṣ), masculine plural خاصين (ḵāṣṣīn), feminine plural خاصات (ḵāṣṣāt), elative أخص (ʔaḵaṣṣ))
* special
* particular
* specific
* designated (ب (b-) for)
* characteristic (ب (b-) of)
* private

### Preposition

خاص • (ḵāṣṣ)
* (false verb) should; need
    خاصني نمشي للمكتبة باش ناخد داك الكتاب اللي هدرت لك عليه.ḵāṣṣni namši l-el-maktaba bāš nāḵud dāk l-ektāb elli hdartlak ʕlīhI need to go to the library to get the book I've talked to you about.
    خاصه يجمع راسه قبل ما يفوت الفوت.ḵāṣṣu yijmaʕ rāsu qbal ma yfūt el-fūtHe needs to get his shit together before it is too late.

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

From Arabic خَاصّ (ḵāṣṣ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /has/

### Adjective

خاص • (has)
* special
* particular, specific
* genuine

#### Descendants

* Turkish: has

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خَاصّ (ḵāṣṣ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xɒːs/

### Adjective

خاص • (xâss) (comparative خاص‌تَر (xâss-tar), superlative خاص‌تَرین (xâss-tarin))
* special
* particular
* specific

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خَاصّ (xāss), borrowed from Arabic خَاصّ (ḵāṣṣ), from خَصَّ (ḵaṣṣa).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /xɑːs/
* Rhymes: -ɑːs

### Adjective

خاص • (xās) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ख़ास)
* special
* particular, specific
* extraordinary
* peculiar

### Further reading

* “خاص”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “خاص”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خاص”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “خاص”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* S. W. Fallon (1879) “خاص”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
* John Shakespear (1834) “خاص”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC