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 Persian از‎ (az).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /əz/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /əz/

از • (az) (Hindi spelling अज़‎)

1. from, by

   Synonym: سے‎ (se)