شخص

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.xa.sˤa/

شَخَصَ • (šaḵaṣa) I (non-past يَشْخَصُ (yašḵaṣu), verbal noun شُخُوص (šuḵūṣ))

1. to rise, to tower up
2. to become high, to become lofty
3. to rise, to ascend
4. to appear
5. to stare, to gaze
6. to be glazed over
7. to start out, to leave, to depart
8. to travel, to journey
9. to pass

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ʃax.xa.sˤa/

شَخَّصَ • (šaḵḵaṣa) II (non-past يُشَخِّصُ (yušaḵḵiṣu), verbal noun تَشْخِيص (tašḵīṣ))

1. to personify, to represent as a person, to represent as an individual
2. to specify, to identify
3. to act, to perform, to play (a part, role)
4. to diagnose (a disease)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ʃaxsˤ/

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شَخْص • (šaḵṣ) m (plural أَشْخَاص (ʔašḵāṣ) or شُخُوص (šuḵūṣ))

1. person, individual
   • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 19:22:

     أَتَعْجَبُونَ مِنْ غَيْرَةِ سَعْدٍ؟ فَوَٱللَّٰهِ لَأَنَا أَغْيَرُ مِنْهُ، وَٱللَّهُ أَغْيَرُ مِنِّي، مِنْ أَجْلِ غَيْرَةِ اللَّهِ حَرَّمَ الْفَوَاحِشَ مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْهَا وَمَا بَطَنَ، وَلَا شَخْصَ أَغْيَرُ مِنَ اللَّهِ، وَلَا شَخْصَ أَحَبُّ إِلَيْهِ الْعُذْرُ مِنَ اللَّهِ، مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ بَعَثَ اللَّهُ الْمُرْسَلِينَ مُبَشِّرِينَ وَمُنْذِرِينَ، وَلَا شَخْصَ أَحَبُّ إِلَيْهِ الْمِدْحَةُ مِنَ اللَّهِ، مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الْجَنَّةَ.

     ʔataʕjabūna min ḡayrati saʕdin? fawal-lāhi laʔanā ʔaḡyaru minhu, wal-lahu ʔaḡyaru minnī, min ʔajli ḡayrati l-lahi ḥarrama l-fawāḥiša mā ẓahara minhā wamā baṭana, walā šaḵṣa ʔaḡyaru mina l-lahi, walā šaḵṣa ʔaḥabbu ʔilayhi l-ʕuḏru mina l-lahi, min ʔajli ḏalika baʕaṯa l-lahu l-mursalīna mubašširīna wamunḏirīna, walā šaḵṣa ʔaḥabbu ʔilayhi l-midḥatu mina l-lahi, min ʔajli ḏalika waʕada l-lahu l-jannata.

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   • (Can we date this quote?), Umar Ibn Abi Rabī'ah, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     فَكَانَ مِجَنِّي دُونَ مَنْ كُنْتُ أَتَّقِي / ثَلَاثَ شُخُوصٍ كَاعِبَانِ وَمُعْصِرُ

     fakāna mijannī dūna man kuntu ʔattaqī / ṯalāṯa šuḵūṣin kāʕibāni wamuʕṣiru

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2. figure, character

• → Classical Persian: شَخْص (šaxṣ /⁠šaxs⁠/)
  • Persian: شخص (šaxṣ /⁠šaxs⁠/)
  • → Azerbaijani: şəxs
  • → Bashkir: шәхес (şəxes)
  • → Bengali: শখ্‌স (śokhs), আশখাস (aśokhaś)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: شخص
    • Turkish: şahıs
  • → Tatar: шәхес (şäxes)
  • → Urdu: شخص (śaxs)
• → Turkmen: şahs
• → Uyghur: شەخس (shexs)
• → Uzbek: shaxs

Borrowed from Arabic شَخْص (šaḵṣ).

شخص • (šaxs) (plural اشخاص (ašxâs) or شخص‌ها (šaxs-hâ) or شخصان (šaxsân))

1. person, individual

• شخصا (šaxsan)
• شخصی (šaxsi)
• شخصیت (šaxsiyat)

From Arabic شَخْص (šaḵṣ).

• IPA^(key): /ʃaxsˤ/,

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شخص • (šaḵṣ) m (plural أشخاص (ʔašḵāṣ) or شخاص (šḵāṣ))

1. person, individual
2. character (in a play, film etc.)
3. statuette, figurine

Borrowed from Classical Persian شخص (šaxs), from Arabic شَخْص (šaḵṣ).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʃəxs/

شخص • (śaxs) m (Hindi spelling शख़्स)

1. person, individual