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ezâfe

ezâfe is the alternative form of ezafe.

Meaning of ezafe

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, 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.

Forms of ezâfe

pluralezâfes
alternative formezafe

Origin of ezâfe

Borrowed from Iranian Persian اِضافِه (ezâfe); see ezafe for more.

Questions about ezâfe

What is ezâfe the alternative form of?
Ezâfe is the alternative form of ezafe.

Words near ezâfe in the dictionary

  1. Ezzells
  2. Ezzie
  3. Ezzies
  4. Ezzo
  5. Ezzos
  6. ezâfe
  7. ezâfes
  8. ezāfe
  9. Eötvös
  10. Eötvös balance
  11. Eötvös effect

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ezâfe (page history and authors); ezafe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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