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

• 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

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.

Related terms

• اضافہ‎ (izāfa)