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payetan

payetan is the alternative form of paytan.

Meaning of paytan

Noun

paytan (plural paytans or paytanim)

  1. The writer of a piyyut.
    • The Oriental rabbis who settled in Germany, coming via Italy and France, were also precentors, chazzanim, and paytanim (poets).1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 134

Forms of payetan

pluralpayetanim

Questions about payetan

What is payetan the alternative form of?
Payetan is the alternative form of paytan.

Words near payetan in the dictionary

  1. payers
  2. Payes
  3. Payeses
  4. payess
  5. payest
  6. payetan
  7. payetanim
  8. payeth
  9. Payette
  10. Payette County
  11. Payettes

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