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ezafes

ezafes is the plural 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.

Questions about ezafes

What is ezafes the plural of?
Ezafes is the plural of ezafe.

Words near ezafes in the dictionary

  1. ez
  2. Ez.
  3. ezafe
  4. ezafeh
  5. ezafehs
  6. ezafes
  7. ezatiostat
  8. ezba
  9. ezbas
  10. ezcurrite
  11. Ezdîkî

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