خاصیت

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Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خَاصِّيَّة (ḵāṣṣiyya).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? xāsiyyat
Dari reading? xāsiyat
Iranian reading? xâsiyyat
Tajik reading? xosiyat
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, 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

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