dayan

• dayyan

From Hebrew דיין.

dayan (plural dayanim)

1. A rabbinic judge
   • 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 375:

     A medieval hymn composed by the Dayyan ("Judge") Daniel b. Yehudah of fourteenth-century Rome, recited in the daily morning Preliminary Service, and by some, at the close of the Arvit and Musaf services on Shabbat and festivals.

   • 2024, David Golinkin, “Does Jewish Law Require Yeshivah Students To Be Drafted At Age 18?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 66:

     There is a famous story about Rabbi Yisrael Salanter who ate on the Bimah in Vilna at the end of the Yom Kippur morning service in 1848 during a cholera epidemic, together with two other Dayyanim, to persuade the congregation to eat during the epidemic.

dayán

1. stroll, walk

   Synonym: lagaw

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /daˈjan/ [d̪ɐˈjan̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: da‧yan

dayán (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜌᜈ᜔)

1. festive decorations (such as buntings, bannerets, or arches put up during town celebrations)

   Synonyms: adorno, palamuti, dekorasyon

• danay

dayan

1. second-person singular imperative of dayanmak