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ayin

[ ah-yin; Sephardic Hebrew ah-yeen ]

noun

  1. the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
  2. the voiced pharyngeal constrictive consonant represented by this letter and cognate with Arabic 'ain.


ayin

/ ˈajiːn; ˈɑːjɪn /

noun

  1. the 16th letter in the Hebrew alphabet (ע), originally a pharyngeal fricative, that is now silent and transliterated by a raised inverted comma (')
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of ayin1

First recorded in 1875–80, ayin is from the Hebrew word ʿ⾱ literally, eye
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of ayin1

Hebrew
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Example Sentences

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But at the same time it had a different name: ayin, or “nothing.”

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As I learned in my high school Talmud class, the medieval Rabbis decided to forbid these not-technically-forbidden grains because of a principle called marit ayin, which literally means “what it looks like.”

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