Ezāfe, the Glossary
Ezāfe (lit) is a grammatical particle found in some Iranian languages, as well as Persian-influenced languages such as Ottoman Turkish and Hindi-Urdu, that links two words together. In the Persian language, it consists of the unstressed short vowel -e or -i (-ye or -yi after vowels) between the words it connects and often approximately corresponds in usage to the English preposition of.[1]
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44 relations: A. K. Fazlul Huq, Ahura Mazda, Albanian language, Arabic, Avestan, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Bengali language, Construct state, Cyrillic script, De Gruyter, Devanagari, Elamite language, Genitive case, Grammatical case, Grammatical particle, Hindi, Hindustani language, Iḍāfah, Indo-European languages, Instrumental case, Iranian languages, Kurdish language, Kurmanji, Middle Persian, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Nominative case, Oblique case, Old Persian, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Turkish, Pahlavi scripts, Party of Labour of Albania, Persian language, Poetry, Pronoun, Ramadan, Ranjit Singh, Romanization, Salaam-e-Ishq, Tajik language, Urdu, Urdu alphabet, William St. Clair Tisdall, Zero-width non-joiner.
- Ottoman Turkish language
- Persian grammar
- Urdu
A. K. Fazlul Huq
Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq (আবুল কাশেম ফজলুল হক; 26October 1873 – 27 April 1962), popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla (Lion of Bengal), was a Bengali lawyer and politician who presented the Lahore Resolution which had the objective of creating an independent Pakistan.
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Ahura Mazda
Ahura Mazda (𐬀𐬵𐬎𐬭𐬀 𐬨𐬀𐬰𐬛𐬁|translit.
Albanian language
Albanian (endonym: shqip, gjuha shqipe, or arbërisht) is an Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanoid branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group.
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Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
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Avestan
Avestan is an umbrella term for two Old Iranian languages, Old Avestan (spoken in the 2nd to 1st millennium BC) and Younger Avestan (spoken in the 1st millennium BC).
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (Bangladesh Islamic Congress), previously known as Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, or Jamaat for short, is the largest Islamist political party in Bangladesh.
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Bengali language
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.
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Construct state
In Afro-Asiatic languages, the first noun in a genitive phrase that consists of a possessed noun followed by a possessor noun often takes on a special morphological form, which is termed the construct state (Latin status constructus).
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.
De Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter, is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.
Devanagari
Devanagari (देवनागरी) is an Indic script used in the northern Indian subcontinent.
Elamite language
Elamite, also known as Hatamtite and formerly as Susian, is an extinct language that was spoken by the ancient Elamites.
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Genitive case
In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun.
Grammatical case
A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording.
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Grammatical particle
In grammar, the term particle (abbreviated) has a traditional meaning, as a part of speech that cannot be inflected, and a modern meaning, as a function word (functor) associated with another word or phrase in order to impart meaning.
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Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.
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Hindustani language
Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India, Pakistan and the Deccan and used as the official language of India and Pakistan. Hindustani is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi (written in Devanagari script and influenced by Sanskrit) and Urdu (written in Perso-Arabic script and influenced by Persian and Arabic).
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Iḍāfah
Iḍāfah (إضافة) is the Arabic grammatical construct case, mostly used to indicate possession.
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Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.
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Instrumental case
In grammar, the instrumental case (abbreviated or) is a grammatical case used to indicate that a noun is the instrument or means by or with which the subject achieves or accomplishes an action.
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Iranian languages
The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau.
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Kurdish language
Kurdish (Kurdî, کوردی) is a Northwestern Iranian language or group of languages spoken by Kurds in the region of Kurdistan, namely in Turkey, northern Iraq, northwest and northeast Iran, and Syria.
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Kurmanji
Kurmanji (lit), also termed Northern Kurdish, is the northernmost of the Kurdish languages, spoken predominantly in southeast Turkey, northwest and northeast Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria and the Caucasus and Khorasan regions.
Middle Persian
Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg (Pahlavi script: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩𐭪, Manichaean script: 𐫛𐫀𐫡𐫘𐫏𐫐, Avestan script: 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬯𐬍𐬐) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire.
Mohammad Mosaddegh
Mohammad Mosaddegh (محمد مصدق,; 16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician, author, and lawyer who served as the 30th Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis.
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Nominative case
In grammar, the nominative case (abbreviated), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb, or (in Latin and formal variants of English) a predicative nominal or adjective, as opposed to its object, or other verb arguments.
Oblique case
In grammar, an oblique (abbreviated; from casus obliquus) or objective case (abbr.) is a nominal case other than the nominative case and, sometimes, the vocative.
Old Persian
Old Persian is one of two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of the Sasanian Empire).
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
Ottoman Turkish
Ottoman Turkish (Lisân-ı Osmânî,; Osmanlı Türkçesi) was the standardized register of the Turkish language in the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). Ezāfe and Ottoman Turkish are Ottoman Turkish language.
Pahlavi scripts
Pahlavi is a particular, exclusively written form of various Middle Iranian languages.
Party of Labour of Albania
The Party of Labour of Albania (PLA), also referred to as the Albanian Workers' Party (AWP), was the ruling and sole legal party of Albania during the communist period (1945–1991).
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Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Poetry
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.
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Pronoun
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase.
Ramadan
Ramadan (Ramaḍān; also spelled Ramazan, Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm), prayer (salah), reflection, and community.
Ranjit Singh
Ranjit Singh (13 November 1780 – 27 June 1839) was the founder and first maharaja of the Sikh Empire, ruling from 1801 until his death in 1839.
Romanization
In linguistics, romanization is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so.
Salaam-e-Ishq
Salaam-e-Ishq also known as Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute To Love, is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Nikkhil Advani, marking his second directorial venture after Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003).
Tajik language
Tajik, or Tajiki Persian, also called Tajiki, is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by Tajiks.
Urdu
Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.
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Urdu alphabet
The Urdu alphabet is the right-to-left alphabet used for writing Urdu.
William St. Clair Tisdall
William St.
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Zero-width non-joiner
The zero-width non-joiner (ZWNJ,; rendered:; HTML entity: or) is a non-printing character used in the computerization of writing systems that make use of ligatures.
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See also
Ottoman Turkish language
- Ezāfe
- Franciscus a Mesgnien Meninski
- Jurnal al-Khidiw
- Köy
- Kadrî of Pergamon
- Lazăr Șăineanu
- Ottoman Turkish
- Ottoman literature
- Translation Office (Ottoman Empire)
Persian grammar
Urdu
- 1994 anti-Urdu riots
- Akhlaq-e-Hindi
- Bible translations into Hindi and Urdu
- Dialects of Urdu
- Ezāfe
- Glossary of the British Raj
- Haryana Urdu Akademi
- Hindi–Urdu controversy
- Hindi–Urdu transliteration
- Hindustani declension
- Hindustani grammar
- Hindustani orthography
- Hindustani phonology
- Hindustani vocabulary
- History of Hindustani language
- Insha Allah Khan
- International Urdu Conference
- Islam in Uttar Pradesh
- List of Marsiya writers in Urdu
- List of Urdu prose dastans
- List of Urdu universities
- Lutfuddaulah Oriental Research Institute
- Mohmil
- Mohri Sharif
- National Language Promotion Department
- Persian and Urdu
- Phonological history of Hindustani
- Sara Rai
- Save Urdu Movement
- Silent vāv
- Tuzk
- Uddin and Begum Hindustani romanisation
- Urdish
- Urdu
- Urdu Defence Association
- Urdu Dictionary Board
- Urdu Hall
- Urdu in the United Kingdom
- Urdu movement
- Urdu script
- Urdu-language literature
- Urdu-speaking people
- World Urdu Day
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezāfe
Also known as Ezafe, Ezafeh, Izafa, Izafah, Izafat, Izafeh, Izafet, Izofa, Izāfa.