خاصة

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. private possession
2. property, characteristic
3. essence, nature
4. leading personalities, elite, the upper class
5. (Shia, collective, definite) people close to Ahl al-Bayt and the Shi'ite Imams, i.e. the Shia

Adv

especially, particularly, in particular

Teenoorgestelde van

عَامَّة

Sinonieme

صفة

خصوصا

نعت

خلة

لاسيما

خصيصا

Vertalings

Eigenschaft

property

Merkmal

χαρακτηριστικό

feature

particularly

singularly

ιδιότητα

specifically

caractère

caractéristique

marque

propriété

qualité

besonders

Etimologie (Engels)

From the root خ ص ص (ḵ ṣ ṣ). Sense 5 is used in the Shi'ite vernacular and derives from the people that were closer to the Shi'ite's Imams (their "private" (people)), as opposed to the general public (اَلْعَامَّة (al-ʕāmma)).