از

• ز (ze) (literary, dialectal)

From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭭 (az), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎨𐎠 (hacā), from Proto-Iranian *háčā, from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”).

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از • (az)

1. of, from

   از او پرسیدم اگر می‌خواهد به ایران برود. (more literary)

   az u porsidam agar mi-xâhad be irân be-ravad.

   ازش پرسیدم اگه می‌خواد به ایران بره. (more colloquial)

   az-aš porsidam age mi-xâd be irân be-re.

   I asked of him if he wanted to go to Iran.

2. since

   از کی تا حالا؟ ― az key tâ hâlâ? ― Since when?

3. than

   این کتاب از آن کتاب بهتر است. (more literary)

   in ketâb az ân ketâb behtar ast.

   این کتاب از اون کتاب بهتره. (more colloquial)

   in ketâb az un ketâb behtar-e.

   This book is better than that one.

In standard and colloquial modern Persian (more so in colloquial Persian), the preposition is used with an enclitic pronoun when a pronoun is the object of the sentence. For instance, the phrase “از او پرسیدم” (az u porsidam, lit. “from him (I) asked”) becomes “ازش پرسیدم” (az-aš porsidam) when using the enclitic third-person singular pronoun.

Borrowed from Classical Persian از (az).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /əz/

از • (az) (Hindi spelling अज़)

1. from, by

   Synonym: سے (se)