Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet.
Wiktionary
- n. The sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
WordNet 3.0
- n. the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Etymologies
- From Proto-Semitic *ʿayn- (“eye”). (Wiktionary)
- Hebrew 'ayin, eye, ayin; see ʿyn in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“( "ayin", "yod", "reish") we turn to the Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an appendix containing the biblical Aramaic, based on the Lexicon of Wm. Gesenius,”
“ayin," instead of "alef" - is actually a great play on words for phyllo dough (that you'd use for puff pastries, usually meat or vegetable-filled).”
“Watchers moved through the streets, polluted with blood, so that none could touch their garments is spelt" ayin "," vav "," reish ".”
“There are many different schools of thought in Judaism about the ayin harah, or "evil eye.”
The Huffington Post: Shira Hirschman Weiss: Re-examining The 'Evil Eye'
“The rabbi apologized to her and explained how ayin harah, as it was first mentioned in the Torah, refers to jealousy: We do not want to make others jealous of us which causes their "evil eye" to look at us, so we need to be humble and not flaunt our blessings.”
The Huffington Post: Shira Hirschman Weiss: Re-examining The 'Evil Eye'
“There are so many different schools of thought in Judaism about the ayin harah.”
The Huffington Post: Shira Hirschman Weiss: Re-examining The 'Evil Eye'
“If you speak to some Modern Orthodox, Lubavitch or Traditional Jews of a certain age, you may see that they -- more prevalently than others -- use the phrase "kneine harah" (Yiddish) or "bli ayin harah" (Hebrew).”
The Huffington Post: Shira Hirschman Weiss: Re-examining The 'Evil Eye'
“There are many different schools of thought in Judaism about the ayin harah, or evil eye.”
The Huffington Post: Shira Hirschman Weiss: Re-examining The 'Evil Eye'
“Gamlielit became famous within the theater and beyond for her performances of songs that called for acting and singing with the Yemenite-style pronunciation of the Hebrew letters het and ayin, among them: “Tango Temani,” “Elimelekh,” “Gedalyah Reva Ish,” “Be-Karmei Teman,” “Ha-Yeled Nissim” and “Ha-Tender Nosea.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ayin’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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Letters
See also The Phonetic alphabet by oroboros.
aye, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, eff, gee, aitch, eye, jay, kay and 452 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
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Phonecian Alphabet
taw, shin, resh, qoph, tsade, pe, ayin, samekh, nun, mem, lamedh, kaph and 10 more...
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