bilhassa

Turkish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

bilhassa

1. especially, particularly

Related terms

• bihakkın
• bilahare
• bilakis
• bilcümle
• bilfiil
• bilmukabele
• bilumum
• bittabi
• bizzat
• has
• haseki
• hasiyet
• havas
• hisse
• husus
• ihtisas
• mahsus
• mütehassıs
• tahsis

 

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