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ezafe

/ɛˈzɑːfeɪ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ezafe
IPA
/ɛˈzɑːfeɪ/
17
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: ض ي ف, اِضَافَه, إِضَافَة

Inflected Forms

ezafes (plural) ezāfe (alternative) ezafeh (alternative) ezāfeh (alternative) izafa (alternative) izāfa (alternative) izafah (alternative) izāfah (alternative) izafat (alternative) izāfat (alternative) iḍāfa (alternative) ʾiḍāfa (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

ʾiḍāfa

Questions

How do you pronounce ezafe?
The recorded pronunciation is /ɛˈzɑːfeɪ/.
What does ezafe mean?
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.
Where does ezafe come from?
It is traced to Arabic.

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