English
khass
Khass comes from Arabic خاص ‘special, exclusive’, and goes back to خَصَّ ‘to favor, to endow, to be characteristic of,…’.
- Arabicc. 500–presentخَصَّḵaṣṣa‘to favor, to endow, to be characteristic of, to concern’
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentخاصḵāṣ‘special, exclusive’
- Englishtodaykhass
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Arabicc. 500–presentخَصَّḵaṣṣa‘to favor, to endow, to be characteristic of, to concern’
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentخاصḵāṣ‘special, exclusive’
- Englishtodaykhass
Every English word from Arabic خَصَّ
Today it means
adj Of an estate: retained in the hands of government.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Arabic خَصَّ / khass