ezafe

See also: ezāfe

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)

Etymology

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Arabic إِضَافَة (ʔiḍāfa)bor.

Iranian Persian اِضافِه (ezâfe)bor.

English ezafe

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈzɑːfeɪ/

Noun

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), -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

grammatical particle

• Arabic: إِضَافَة f (ʔiḍāfa)
• Armenian: իզաֆետ (hy) (izafet)
• Azerbaijani: izafət
• Bengali: ইজাফা (bn) (ijapha)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耶扎菲 (zh) (yēzhāfēi)

• French: ézafé (fr) m
• Greek: ιζαφέτ (el) n (izafét)
• Hebrew: אזאפה
• Hindi: इज़ाफ़त m (izāfat)
• 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 (ezāfa)
• Persian:

  Dari: اِضَافَه (fa) (izāfa)

  Iranian Persian: اِضافِه (fa) (ezâfe), نَقْش‌نَمایِ اِضافِه (nağš-namâ-ye ezâfe)

• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਇਜ਼ਾਫ਼ਾ (izāfā)

  Shahmukhi: اِضافَہ (īẓāfah)

• Russian: изафе́т (ru) m (izafét)
• Tajik: изофа (izofa)
• Turkish: izafet (tr)
• Urdu: اِضافَہ m (izāfa), اِضافَت f (izāfat)
• Uzbek: izofat (uz)

See also

• ʾiḍāfa (in Arabic grammar)

Further reading

• ezafe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• feaze