ezafe

• ezāfe, ezafeh, ezāfeh (Iranian Persian)
• izafa, izāfa, izafah, izāfah, izafat, izāfat, iḍāfa, ʾiḍāfa, iḍāfah, iḍāfat, idhafa, idafa, idafah (Arabic, Classical Persian, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi)
• izofa, izofat (Tajik)
• izafet, izâfet (Ottoman Turkish, Turkish)

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

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈzɑːfeɪ/

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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, Punjabi), -i / -yi (Classical Persian, Kurdish, Bengali, Hindi-Urdu, Punjabi, Ottoman Turkish, Turkish), or -ı (Ottoman Turkish, 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.

• ʾiḍāfa (in Arabic grammar)

• ezafe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• feaze