ـی

Suffix

 * 1) 3rd-person possessive suffix

Etymology 1
From /, itself from  (see there for further origin). Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. There is no evidence to support a relation with the 🇨🇬 which however does merge with this suffix exclusively in some Arabic loanwords. See for another instance where the 'g' phoneme of the is removed from the end of the Middle Persian suffix in its New Persian form. For a few examples in which the final 'g' phoneme in the /  suffix is not lost, and instead transformed to a 'k' phoneme in the New Persian variant of its Middle Persian predecessor, refer to, ,  and.

Suffix

 * 1) Forms nouns or adjectives from nouns
 * 2) of or pertaining to
 * 3) one from or belonging to
 * 4) Forms the word for a profession, and the place it is practiced, from the word for the person who practice it
 * 5) able to, capabale of being, deserved to be, determined to, and/or destined to
 * 6) Forms surnames.
 * 1) Forms the word for a profession, and the place it is practiced, from the word for the person who practice it
 * 2) able to, capabale of being, deserved to be, determined to, and/or destined to
 * 3) Forms surnames.
 * 1) Forms surnames.
 * 1) Forms surnames.
 * 1) Forms surnames.

Usage notes
is the form that follows words ending in consonants. Adjectives ending in the short vowel will use the form  for their derived nouns, while nouns ending in  will usually add the non-joining  to form their derived adjectives. Both nouns and adjectives ending in the long vowels and  will use the form

As a derivational suffix, and the above-mentioned alternative forms take the stress in a word, as in. As the marked indefinite or relative definite suffix, the stress remains on the root of the word, as in

Most Persian surnames end in this suffix.

Etymology 2
From.

Suffix

 * 1) Forms abstract nouns from adjectives.

Etymology 3
From, from , , from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Suffix

 * 1) a, one;
 * Contrast with:
 * Contrast with:
 * Contrast with:
 * Contrast with:

Usage notes
This suffix is attached as a suffix to a noun in a sentence and acts as the indefinite object marker. most words use the joining, unless the word ends in long vowels such as or  or a non-joining consonant such as the final  in. For instance, “a dog” would be, but “houses” would be , "a pumpkin" would be and “a house” would be.

Etymology 1
, from or. Later influenced by Persian.

Suffix

 * 1) relating to,

Etymology 2
Borrowed from the nominative singular form of.

Suffix

 * 1) doer, possessor

Etymology 3
, from.