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ezafe

/ɛˈzɑːfeɪ/

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

noun ezafe · ezafes · ezāfe · ezafeh · ezāfeh · izafa

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.

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noun grammatical particle

한국어	에자페 ejape
日本語	エザーフェ ezāfe
中文	耶扎菲 yēzhāfēi
हिन्दी	इज़ाफ़ा izāfā, इज़ाफ़त izāfat
Français	ézafé
Ελληνικά	ιζαφέτ izafét
Русский	изафе́т izafét
العربية	إِضَافَة ʔiḍāfa
עברית	אֶזָאפֶה

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@misc{ezafe_2026,
  title = {ezafe},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ezafe},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}