ayn

Abbreviation of English Arabic, Yemeni.

ayn

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Yemeni Arabic.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Yemeni Arabic terms

• IPA^(key): /aɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

A romanization of the sixteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew ע (ʿayin), Phoenician 𐤏 (ʿayin), Aramaic 𐡏 (ʿē), and Classical Syriac ܥ (ʿē), Arabic ع (ʕayn) (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only).

ayn (plural ayns)

1. (linguistics) Synonym of ayin, the various letters representing the consonant /ʕ/ in Semitic languages.

A romanization of Kazakh аин (ain), the Kazakh name for the letter Ғ (Ğ).

ayn (plural ayns)

1. (linguistics) Synonym of ghayn, the letter Ғ, representing the consonant /ʁ/ or /ɣ/, particularly in Kazakh.

• NAY, NYA, Nay, Yan, any, any%, nay, yan

ayn m or f (invariable)

1. alternative spelling of ain

From Old Irish and

• IPA^(key): /oːn/, /uːn/^[1]

ayn (emphatic aynsyn)

1. third-person singular masculine of ayns

   cha nel ayn agh craueyn.

   He is reduced to a skeleton.

ayn

1. there
   • ayn as ass, there and back

ayn

1. existent
   • ayn rish foddey, long-standing
2. present

ayn

1. alternative form of ain

• “ayn, adj., n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish عین (ayn), from Arabic عَين.

ayn

1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ع

ayn

1. (text messaging) initialism of aynen

Borrowed from Arabic عَيْن (ʕayn).

ayn (plural aynlar)

1. the Arabic letter ع