Word.ws English Dictionary

layn

layn is the alternative spelling of leyn.

Meaning of leyn

Verb

leyn (third-person singular simple present leyns, present participle leyning, simple past and past participle leyned)

  1. (Judaism) to read from a Torah scroll
  2. (Judaism, broadly) to recite the haftarah, megillah or other ritualized text

Forms of layn

third-person singular presentlayns
present participlelayning
past participlelayned
pastlayned

Questions about layn

What is layn the alternative spelling of?
Layn is the alternative spelling of leyn.

Words near layn in the dictionary

  1. Laymans
  2. laymanship
  3. laymen
  4. Laymon
  5. Laymons
  6. layn
  7. Layne
  8. Laynster
  9. layoff
  10. layoffs
  11. Layon

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: layn (page history and authors); leyn (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “layn.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/layn. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.