ezafe

See also: ezāfe

English

Alternative forms

  • ezāfe, ezafeh, ezāfeh (Iranian Persian)
  • izafa, izāfa, izafah, izāfah, izafat, izāfat, iḍāfa, iḍāfah, iḍāfat, idhafa (Classical Persian)
  • izofa, izofat (Tajik)
  • izafet, izâfet (Ottoman Turkish, Turkish)

Etymology

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    Arabic أَضَافَ (ʔaḍāfa)
    Arabic إِضَافَة (ʔiḍāfa)bor.
    Iranian Persian اِضافِه (ezâfe)bor.
    English ezafe

    Borrowed from Iranian Persian اِضافِه (ezâfe), from Classical Persian اِضَافَه (izāfa), from Arabic إِضَافَة (ʔiḍāfa). Doublet of idafa.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɛˈzɑːfeɪ/

    Noun

    ezafe (plural ezafe or ezafes)

    1. A grammatical particle found in some Iranian and Iranian-influenced languages which links two words together; it consists of the unstressed vowel -e / -ye (Persian, Bengali, Hindi-Urdu), -i / -yi (Classical Persian, Kurdish, Urdu, Ottoman Turkish), or -ı (Ottoman Turkish) between the words it connects, and often approximately corresponds in usage to the English preposition "of", similar to but not to be confused with Arabic ʾiḍāfa.

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