Ezāfe
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Ezāfe (Persian: اضافه, lit. 'extra'), also romanized as ezâfe, izafet, izafe, izafat, izāfa, ezafe, and izofa (Tajik: изофа, romanized: izofa), 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.[1][2][3][4] In the Persian language, it consists of the unstressed short vowel -e or -i (-ye or -yi after vowels)[5] 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,[6][7] 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.