خاصیت

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خَاصِّيَّة‎ (ḵāṣṣiyya, “feature”)

Pronunciation

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

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɑː.sij.jät̪]

• (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

Dari	خاصیت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	қосият

Noun

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

1. 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.”

2. virtue

References

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