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ain

/eːn/

ain is the alternative form 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

Determiner

ain

  1. (Scotland) Own; belonging to one.
    • Bobby Shaftoe's bright and fair,
      Combing down his yellow hair,
      He's my ain for evermair,
      Bonny Bobby Shaftoe.1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, Bobby Shaftoe, page 86

Noun capitalized: AIN

AIN (plural AINs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of anterior interosseous nerve.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: AIN

AIN

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Alternative Influence Network, a loose network of right-wing to far-right influencers on YouTube.
    • The content creators in the AIN claim to provide an alternative media source for viewers to obtain news and political commentary, outside of legacy news outlets such as cable channels and print media.2018 September 18, Rebecca Lewis, “Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube”, in Data & Society, page 4

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ain

Ain

  1. A department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Capital: Bourg-en-Bresse (INSEE code 01).
  2. A river in the Jura and Ain departments, in eastern France, flowing from the Jura Mountains into the Rhône River.

Forms of ain

pluralains
pluralAINs

Origin of ain

From (Scots) Middle English aȝen.

Borrowed from French Ain.

Phrases with ain

Questions about ain

What does ain mean?
Ain means own; belonging to one.
What is ain the alternative form of?
Ain is the alternative form of ayin.
What part of speech is ain?
Ain can be a determiner, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ain?
Ain is pronounced /eːn/.

Words near ain in the dictionary

  1. aims for the stars
  2. aims high
  3. aimworthiness
  4. aimworthy
  5. Aimée
  6. ain
  7. Ain Sof
  8. Ain Sokhna
  9. ain'
  10. ain't
  11. ain't no bones about it

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ain (page history and authors); AIN (page history and authors); Ain (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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