Common uses of the Persian ezafe are:
• Possessive: برادرِ مریم barâdar-e Maryam "Mary's brother" (it can also apply to pronominal possession, برادرِ من barâdar-e man "my brother", but in … 展开

Besides Persian, ezafe is found in other Iranian languages and in Turkic languages, which have historically borrowed many phrases … 展开

• Nominative case
• Oblique case
• Iḍāfah (Arabic's construct case) 展开

Iẓāfat, in Hindi and Urdu, is a syntactical construction of two nouns, where the first component is a determined noun, and the second is a determiner. This construction was borrowed from … 展开

Originally, in Old Persian, nouns had case endings, just like every other early Indo-European language (such as Latin, Greek, and Proto-Germanic). A … 展开