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ayin
[ ah-yin; Sephardic Hebrew ah-yeen ]
noun
- the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- the voiced pharyngeal constrictive consonant represented by this letter and cognate with Arabic 'ain.
ayin
/ ˈajiːn; ˈɑːjɪn /
noun
- the 16th letter in the Hebrew alphabet (ע), originally a pharyngeal fricative, that is now silent and transliterated by a raised inverted comma (')
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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
Examples have not been reviewed.
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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