Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

خُصُوصٌ

Root: خص

Full Definition

خُصُوصٌ an Verbal.Noun of 1, trans. and intrans.
2 [Used as a simple subst., Particularity; peculiarity; speciality, or specialty; as also the inf. ns. , and .] You say, لَهُ خُصُوصٌ and [To him belongs a particularity, &c.], and بِى [in me is &c.]. [Hence خُصُوصًا Particularly; specially; as also .] Th was heard to say, إِذَا ذُكِرَ الصَّالِحُونَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَإِذَا ذُكِرَ الأَشْرَافُ فَبِخَاصَّةٍ عَلِىٌّ [meaning فَخُصُوصًا, i. e., When the righteous are mentioned, then in particular, or peculiarly, Aboo-Bekr is virtually mentioned; and when the shereefs are mentioned, then in particular, or peculiarly, 'Alee].


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