ezafe
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Noun
- 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]].
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