Standard Lemma guide
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noun
The sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
History
From Proto-Semitic *ʿayn- (“eye”), particularly via Hebrew עַיִן (ʿáyin).
Across languages
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
