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ʿain

ʿain is the alternative spelling of ayin.

Meaning of ayin

Noun

ayin (plural ayins)

  1. The sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
    • Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals.1883, Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet

Questions about ʿain

What is ʿain the alternative spelling of?
ʿain is the alternative spelling of ayin.

Words near ʿain in the dictionary

  1. ʻukuleles
  2. ʻāina
  3. ʻākohekohe
  4. ʻākohekohes
  5. ʾiḍāfa
  6. ʿain
  7. ʿayin
  8. ʿIrāq
  9. ˢᵗ
  10. α error
  11. α errors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ʿain (page history and authors); ayin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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