ezafe (English, noun)
expansion: ezafe (plural ezafe or ezafes)
Senses:
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: ezafe
tags: plural
form: ezafes
tags: plural
form: ezāfe
tags: alternative
form: ezafeh
tags: alternative
form: ezāfeh
tags: alternative
form: izafa
tags: alternative
form: izāfa
tags: alternative
form: izafah
tags: alternative
form: izāfah
tags: alternative
form: izafat
tags: alternative
form: izāfat
tags: alternative
form: iḍāfa
tags: alternative
form: iḍāfah
tags: alternative
form: iḍāfat
tags: alternative
form: idhafa
tags: alternative
form: izofa
tags: alternative
form: izofat
tags: alternative
form: izafet
tags: alternative
form: izâfet
tags: alternative