اضافت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِضَافَت (izāfat), itself from Arabic إِضَافَة (ʔiḍāfa, addition, apposition).

Noun

اضافت • (izafet)

  1. (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

  • Turkish: izafet

Further reading

Urdu

Noun

اضافت • (izāfat) m

  1. (grammar) the Persian ezafe, a grammatical particle borrowed into Urdu that links words together. This construct often corresponds to the English preposition of.
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