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Definition: Ayin |
AyinNoun1. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ayin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Crosswords: Ayin |
| Non-English Usage: "Ayin" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Turkish (ceremonial, ceremony, litany, observance, ordinance, rite, ritual, sacrament, service). |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the ayin | 7 |
ayin bat | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ahin, ain. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ayin": ayins. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ayin": zayin. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ayin": affraying, allaying, arraying, assaying, baying, belaying, bendaying, betraying, bewraying, bioassaying, braying, bricklaying, bricklayings, causewaying, claying, decaying, defraying, delaying, disarraying, dismaying, dismayingly, displaying, doomsaying, doomsayings, downplaying, draying, embaying, essaying, estraying, faying, flaying, foraying, fraying, frayings, gainsaying, graying, haying, hayings, holidaying, hooraying, hurraying, inlaying, interlaying, interplaying, laying, maying, mayings, misassaying, mislaying, misplaying, missaying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-y" | |
-1 letter: ain, ani, any, nay, yin. | |
-2 letters: ai, an, ay, in, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-y" | |
+1 letter: ayins, inlay, rainy, zayin. | |
+2 letters: abying, baying, binary, brainy, cairny, cyanic, cyanid, cyanin, dainty, faying, gainly, grainy, haying, hyalin, infamy, inlays, laying, litany, mainly, maying, mayvin, minyan, nazify, painty, paying, paynim, raying, sanity, satiny, saying, vainly, vanity, yanqui, yawing, zanily, zayins. | |
+3 letters: acyloin, alienly, alimony, allying, amenity, aminity, anality, angrily, anility, annuity, anticly, antigay, anxiety, anytime, anywise, babying, bairnly, braying, cannily, carnify, claying, cyanide, cyanids, cyanine, cyanins, cyanite, cycasin, cynical, cyprian, damnify, dandify, dandily, dittany, draying, dynamic, elysian, faintly, fancify, fancily, finally, flaying, fraying, gainsay, graying, gynecia, handily, hayings, hyaenic, hyaline, hyalins, hymenia, inanely, inanity, inaptly, infancy, inlayer, kayoing, kyanise, kyanite, kyanize, ladykin, laniary, lankily, lazying, magnify, mangily, manlily, mayings, mayvins, minyans, naively, naivety, nastily, nattily, nylghai, okaying, panicky, paynims, plainly, playing, pliancy, praying, ptyalin, quinary, rainily, raisiny, riantly, saintly, sayings, slaying, snakily, spaying, staying, stygian, swaying, syconia, synovia, syringa, tantivy, tawnily, taxying, tiffany, trinary, tympani, unitary, urinary, varying, windway, yacking, yaffing, yakking, yanking, yanquis, yapping, yarding, yarning, yauping, yawling, yawning, yawping, yealing, yeaning, zanyish. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 79 69 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.--. .. -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01111001 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A y i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0079 0069 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35917580 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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