خاصة

Significado (Inglés)

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

Oposto a

عَامَّة

Sinónimos

صفة

خصوصا

نعت

خلة

لاسيما

خصيصا

Traducións

Eigenschaft

property

Merkmal

χαρακτηριστικό

feature

particularly

singularly

ιδιότητα

specifically

caractère

caractéristique

marque

propriété

qualité

besonders

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

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)).