ezafe
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See also: ezāfe
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- 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
[edit]Borrowed from Iranian Persian اِضافِه (ezâfe), from Classical Persian اِضَافَه (izāfa), from Arabic إِضَافَة (ʔiḍāfa). Doublet of idafa.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ezafe (plural ezafe or ezafes)
- 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.
Translations
[edit]grammatical particle
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See also
[edit]- ʾiḍāfa (in Arabic grammar)
Further reading
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- English terms derived from Arabic
- English terms derived from the Arabic root ض ي ف
- English terms borrowed from Iranian Persian
- English terms derived from Iranian Persian
- English terms derived from Classical Persian
- English doublets
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English indeclinable nouns
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