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AYIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ayin mean? 

AYIN (noun)
  The noun AYIN has 1 sense:

1. the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabetplay

  Familiarity information: AYIN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AYIN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("ayin" is a kind of...):

alphabetic character; letter; letter of the alphabet (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech)

Holonyms ("ayin" is a member of...):

Hebraic alphabet; Hebrew alphabet; Hebrew script (a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino))


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