شخصا

Arabic

Root
ش خ ص (š-ḵ-ṣ)

Etymology

Adverbial accusative of شَخْص (šaḵṣ, “person”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃax.sˤan/

Adverb

شَخْصًا • (šaḵṣan)

1. personally

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: şəxsən
• → Bashkir: шәхсән (şəxsən)
• → Ottoman Turkish: شخصا (şahsan)
  • Turkish: şahsen
• → Persian: شخصا (šaxsan)
• → Urdu: شخصا (śaxsan)
• → Uzbek: shaxsan

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic شَخْصًا (šaḵṣan), adverbial accusative of شَخْص (šaḵṣ, “person, individual”).

Adverb

شخصاً • (şahsan)

1. personally
2. in person

Descendants

• Turkish: şahsen

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şahıs”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شخصا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1118
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN