Source Word
ezafe
IPA(Pronunciation)
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,
Urdu),
-i
/
-yi
(Classical
Persian,
Kurdish,
Urdu,
Ottoman
Turkish),
or
-ı
(Ottoman
Turkish)
between
the
words
it
connects,
and
often
approximately
corresponds
in
usage
to
the
English
preposition
"of",
similar
but
not
to
be
confused
with
Arabic
ʾiḍāfa.
Japanese Meaning
イラン系及び影響を受けた言語に見られる文法上の助詞で、2つの語句を連結する役割を持つ。 / 語と語の間に現れる非強勢母音(例:ペルシャ語、ベンガル語、ウルドゥー語では -e / -ye、古典ペルシャ語、クルド語、ウルドゥー語、オスマン・トルコ語では -i / -yi、または -ı)で構成される。 / 使用上は英語の前置詞 'of' に概ね相当するが、アラビア語のʾiḍāfaとは区別される。
Sense(1)
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,
Urdu),
-i
/
-yi
(Classical
Persian,
Kurdish,
Urdu,
Ottoman
Turkish),
or
-ı
(Ottoman
Turkish)
between
the
words
it
connects,
and
often
approximately
corresponds
in
usage
to
the
English
preposition
"of",
similar
but
not
to
be
confused
with
Arabic
ʾiḍāfa.
( plural )
( plural )