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dayyan

dayyan is the alternative form of dayan.

Meaning of dayan

Noun

dayan (plural dayans or dayanim)

  1. A rabbinic judge.
    • A medieval hymn composed by the Dayyan ("Judge") Daniel b. Yehudah of fourteenth-century Rome, recited in the daily morning Preliminary Service, and by some, at the close of the Arvit and Musaf services on Shabbat and festivals.1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 375

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Forms of dayyan

pluraldayyans
pluraldayyanim

Questions about dayyan

What is dayyan the alternative form of?
Dayyan is the alternative form of dayan.

Words near dayyan in the dictionary

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  2. daywork
  3. dayworker
  4. dayworkers
  5. dayworks
  6. dayyan
  7. dayyanim
  8. dayyans
  9. dayyooth
  10. dayyuth
  11. dayz

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