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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian اِضَافَت (izāfat), from Arabic إِضَافَة (ʔiḍāfa).
Noun
اضافت • (izafet)
- (grammar) ezafe, a grammatical particle found in Ottoman Turkish and some Iranian languages which links two words together; this construct often corresponds to the English preposition "of".
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “izafet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2280
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “izâfet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 567
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اضافت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 105
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اضافت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 262
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اضافت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 132
Persian
Pronunciation
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Noun
اضافت • (izāfat) (Classical Persian)
- Alternative form of اضافه (“ezafe”).
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian اِضَافَت (izāfat), from Arabic إِضَافَة (ʔiḍāfa).
Pronunciation
Noun
اِضَافَت • (izāfat) m (Hindi spelling इज़ाफ़त)
- (grammar) ezafe or idafa