This article is about the Semitic letter. For other uses, see Ayin (disambiguation).
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Phoenician
Hebrew
ע
Aramaic
Syriac
ܥ
Arabic
ع
Phonemic representation
ʕ
Position in alphabet
16
Numerical value
70
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
Greek
Ο
Latin
O
Cyrillic
О
Ayin (also ayn or ain; transliterated ⟨ʿ⟩) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts, including Phoenician ʿayin 𐤏, Hebrew ʿayin ע, Aramaic ʿē 𐡏, Syriac ʿē ܥ, and Arabic ʿayn ع (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only).[note 1]
The letter represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative (/ʕ/) or a similarly articulated consonant. In some Semitic languages and dialects, the phonetic value of the letter has changed, or the phoneme has been lost altogether (thus, in the revived Modern Hebrew it is reduced to a glottal stop or is omitted entirely in part due to European influence).
The Phoenician letter is the origin of the Greek, Latin and Cyrillic letters O, O and O.
The Arabic character is the origin of the Latin-script letter Ƹ.
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Ayin (also ayn or ain; transliterated ⟨ʿ⟩) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts, including Phoenician ʿayin 𐤏, Hebrew ʿayin ע, Aramaic ʿē 𐡏...
Ayin (Hebrew: אַיִן, lit. 'nothingness', related to אֵין ʾên, lit. 'not') is an important concept in Kabbalah and Hasidic philosophy. It is contrasted...
If any of these are mentioned, the speaker and/or listener will say b'li ayin hara (Hebrew), meaning "without an evil eye", or kein eina hara (Yiddish;...
Bat Ayin (Hebrew: בַּת עַיִן, lit., "daughter of the eye" or "apple of the eye", i. e., pupil, Arabic: بات عاين) is an Israeli settlement in Gush Etzion...
Mar'it-ayin (Mish.: מַרְאִית הָעַיִן; Modern Hebrew: מַרְאִית-עַיִן 'appearance to the eye'; Ashkenazic transliteration: maris ayin), is a concept in halakha...
Rosh HaAyin (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הָעַיִן, lit. 'fountainhead', [ˌʁoʃ (h)aˈ(ʔ)ajin]; Arabic: روش هاعين) is a city in the Central District of Israel. In 2022,...
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Sefer Hamamaarim 5672 (Hebrew: ספר המאמרים תרע״ב), or Ayin Beis, is a compilation of the Chasidic treatises by Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, the fifth...
into the cosmic womb of the Ayin in a manner that results in the created universe. The three letters composing the word "Ayin" (אי״ן), indicate the first...
Ayin Hillel (Hebrew: ע. הלל) was the pen name of Hillel Omer (4 August 1926 - 30 June 1990, Hebrew: הלל עומר), an Israeli poet and children's author. Hillel...
explanation for the name Yehoshua is that it comes from the root ישע, yod-shin-ʿayin, meaning "to deliver, save, or rescue". According to the Book of Numbers...
Ayin Es (born (1968-07-20)July 20, 1968) is a self-taught visual artist, writer, musician (drummer), and book artist from Los Angeles, California. They...
Latin, Greek (omicron), and Cyrillic alphabets 𐤏, Semitic/Phoenician letter Ayin, the ancestor of the Greek, Latin, Cyrillic etc. letters OΟО, uppercase vowel...
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Calligraphic O (𝒪, 𝓸): Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols 𐤏 : Semitic letter Ayin, from which the following symbols originally derive Ω ω : Greek letter Omega...
together to maintain peace in the world and grow together. Zhao Lusi as Ayin / Feng Yin Ayin: A divine water beast with healing powers. Feng Yin: One of the two...
The Bat Ayin axe attack was an attack by a Palestinian man that took place on 2 April 2009 in the West Bank, when Moussa Tayet attacked a group of Israeli...
/dʒ/ ࡕ /t/ becomes ࡕ࡙ /θ/ Mandaic ayin (ࡘ) is borrowed from Arabic ayin (ع). Unlike in Arabic, Mandaic ayin does not join with other letters. Punctuation...
stop; and a mid-word ayin, a voiced pharyngeal fricative ʕ similar/equivalent to Arabic ع. Whenever ` is used, it refers to ayin whether word-initial...
suicide, with Ayin later finding her shortly after having slit her own wrists in her bathtub. Despite Carmen's attempted suicide, Ayin was able to extract...
stop [ʔ], was adopted as representing the vowel [a]; similarly, hē [h] and ʽayin [ʕ] are Phoenician consonants that became Greek vowels, epsilon [e] and...
from within the food". A less common belief is that fish are not subject to ayin hara ("evil eye") because they are submerged while alive, so that a dish...