خصاص

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Arabic

Root
خ ص ص (ḵ-ṣ-ṣ)

Noun

خَصَاص (ḵaṣāṣm (collective, singulative خَصَاصَة f (ḵaṣāṣa))

  1. crack, opening
  2. interstice, interval
  3. deficit, lack, shortage, shortfall; want, need, poverty, destitution
  4. straitness, difficulty

Declension

Noun

خِصَاص (ḵiṣāṣpl

  1. plural of خُصّ (ḵuṣṣ, booth)

References

  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “خصاص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 746–747
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “خصاص”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 338