name
Meaning 1
A commune of Savoie department, France.
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Standard Lemma guide
Ayn
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Pronunciation
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/aɪn/
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rhymes with -aɪn
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homophone: eyen
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CMU ARPABET: EY1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Synonym of Buhoodle, a district of Togdheer, Somalia.
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Synonyms: Buhoodle
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name
Meaning 3
A female given name.
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name
Meaning 4
Initialism of Anarchist Youth Network.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Meaning 5
Synonym of ayin, the various letters representing the consonant /ʕ/ in Semitic languages.
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Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: ayin
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noun
Meaning 6
Synonym of ghayn, the letter Ғ, representing the consonant /ʁ/ or /ɣ/, particularly in Kazakh.
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Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: ghayn
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History
Etymology
From French Ayn, recorded earlier as Latin Ainum, presumably from an uncertain Gaulish or Ancient Ligurian etymon, *aginn (“height, high place”), possibly from pre-Celtic *Agannus (“rock”), perhaps from the same ultimate origin as the place Aginnum.
A romanization of Arabic عَيْن (ʕayn), from Somali Cayn.
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).
A romanization of Kazakh аин (ain), the Kazakh name for the letter Ғ (Ğ).