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paytans

paytans is the plural 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

Questions about paytans

What is paytans the plural of?
Paytans is the plural of paytan.

Words near paytans in the dictionary

  1. paytables
  2. Paytakaran
  3. paytan
  4. paytanic
  5. paytanim
  6. paytans
  7. Paytas
  8. Paytases
  9. Payte
  10. paytech
  11. paytechs

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