ezafe

• 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)

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

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈzɑːfeɪ/

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.

• ʾiḍāfa (in Arabic grammar)

• ezafe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• feaze