اضافت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

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

• 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^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 567
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اضافت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], 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^[3], Vienna, column 262
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اضافت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 132

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔi.zɑː.fat]

Readings
Classical reading?	izāfat

Noun

اضافت • (izāfat) (Classical Persian)

1. Alternative form of اضافه (“ezafe”).

Urdu

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪ.zɑː.fət̪/

Noun

اِضَافَت • (izāfat) m (Hindi spelling इज़ाफ़त)

1. (grammar) ezafe or idafa