khusus

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay khusus, from Classical Malay khusus, from Arabic خُصُوص‎ (ḵuṣūṣ, “particularity, speciality, specialty, peculiarity”).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈxusʊs]
Rhymes: -sʊs, -ʊs, -s
Hyphenation: khu‧sus

Adjective

khusus

special, unique, particular
Synonyms: khas, istimewa

Alternative forms

choesoes (pre-1947)
chusus (1947-72)

Derived terms

kekhususan
khususnya (“especially”)
mengkhusus
mengkhususkan
pengkhususan
terkhusus

References

Erwina Burhanuddin; Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan; R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎, Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, OCLC 29420936

Further reading

“khusus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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