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payyetan

payyetan 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 payyetan

pluralpayyetanim

Questions about payyetan

What is payyetan the alternative form of?
Payyetan is the alternative form of paytan.

Words near payyetan in the dictionary

  1. paywall
  2. paywalled
  3. paywalling
  4. paywalls
  5. payware
  6. payyetan
  7. payyetanim
  8. Payyoli
  9. Payzawat
  10. Payziwat
  11. Payómkawichum

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Adapted from Wiktionary: payyetan (page history and authors); paytan (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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