ezafe
ezafe - English
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 ( 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, 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 .
Translations
grammatical particle
Arabic: إِضَافَة f ( ʔiḍāfa )
Armenian: իզաֆետ (hy) ( izafet )
Azerbaijani: izafət
Bengali: ইজ়াফা (bn) ( izapha )
Chinese:
French: ézafé (fr) m
Hebrew: אזאפה
Hindi: इज़ाफ़ा m ( izāfā )
Japanese: エザーフェ ( ezāfe )
Kazakh: изафет ( izafet )
Korean: 에자페 ( ejape )
Kumyk: изафат ( izafat )
Kyrgyz: изафет ( izafet )
Ottoman Turkish: اضافت ( izâfet )
Pashto: اضافه (ps) f ( ezāfá )
Persian: اضافه (fa) ( ezâfe ) , نقشنمای اضافه ( naqš-namâ-ye ezâfe )
Russian: изафе́т (ru) m ( izafét )
Tajik: изофа ( izofa )
Turkish: izafet (tr)
Urdu: اضافہ m ( izāfā ) , اضافت ( izāfat )
Uzbek: izofat (uz)
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