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a·yin

 (ī′ĭn)
n.
The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet.

[Hebrew 'ayin, eye, ayin; see ʕyn in Semitic roots.]
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ayin

(ˈɑːjɪn; Hebrew ˈajiːn)
n
(Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) the 16th letter in the Hebrew alphabet (ע), originally a pharyngeal fricative, that is now silent and transliterated by a raised inverted comma (`)
[Hebrew]
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a•yin

(ˈɑ yɪn, ˈɑ yin)

n.
the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
[1875–80; < Hebrew ‘ayin literally, eye]
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Noun1.ayin - the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabetayin - the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew script - a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino)
alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters"
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However, the word bara is generally understood to be used in the Creation account to denote creatio ex nihilo, creating something from nothing (yesh me 'ayin).
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But fifty years distant from Baghdad have made their mark on me, too; my mother forgot or chose to forget her language, our language, when placed in a Hebrew school and made to soften her guttural, that is, Arabic-sounding pronunciation of the Hebrew letters ayin and khet.
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