از
از - Persian
Alternative forms
- ز (ze) (literary, dialectal)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA: /az/
- (Dari Persian) IPA: /az/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA: /æz/
- (Tajik) IPA: /az/
Preposition
از • (az)
- of, from
- از او پرسیدم اگر میخواهد به ایران برود. (more literary)
- az u porsidam agar mi-xâhad be irân be-ravad.
- ازش پرسیدم اگه میخواد به ایران بره. (more colloquial)
- az-aš porsidam age mi-xâd be irân be-re.
- I asked of him if he wanted to go to Iran.
- since
- از کی تا حالا؟ ― az key tâ hâlâ? ― Since when?
- than
- این کتاب از آن کتاب بهتر است. (more literary)
- in ketâb az ân ketâb behtar ast.
- این کتاب از اون کتاب بهتره. (more colloquial)
- in ketâb az un ketâb behtar-e.
- This book is better than that one.
Usage notes
In standard and colloquial modern Persian (more so in colloquial Persian), the preposition is used with an enclitic pronoun when a pronoun is the object of the sentence. For instance, the phrase “از او پرسیدم” (az u porsidam, lit. “from him (I) asked”) becomes “ازش پرسیدم” (az-aš porsidam) when using the enclitic third-person singular pronoun.
از - Urdu
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA: /əz/
Preposition
از • (az) (Hindi spelling अज़)