Ezāfe

The ezāfe (/ˌɛzəˈfeɪ/ EZ-ə-FAY or /ɪˈzɑːfeɪ/ iz-AH-fay; Persian: [ezɒːˈfe] اضافه, lit. 'addition') is a grammatical particle found in some Iranian languages, as well as Persian-influenced languages such as Azerbaijani, 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. It is generally not indicated in writing in the Persian script, which is normally written without short vowels, but it is indicated in Tajiki, which is written in the Cyrillic script, as -и without a hyphen.

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