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)

Noun

ezafe ‎(uncountable)

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, 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 but not to be confused with Arabic ʾiḍāfa.

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See also

• ʾiḍāfa (in Arabic grammar)