noun
the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
• Hypernyms: ↑letter, ↑letter of the alphabet, ↑alphabetic character
• Member Holonyms: ↑Hebrew alphabet, ↑Hebraic alphabet, ↑Hebrew script
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/ah"yin/; Seph. Heb. /ah"yeen/, n.
1. the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
2. the voiced pharyngeal constrictive consonant represented by this letter and cognate with Arabic 'ain.
[1875-80; < Heb 'ayin lit., eye]
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ayin /äˈyēn/
noun
The sixteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
ORIGIN: Heb
Useful english dictionary. 2012.