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Ayn¹

  • /aɪn/

Sounds like eyen · Rhymes with -aɪn

Where it comes from

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.

proper noun

  1. A commune of Savoie department, France.

Ayn²

  • /aɪn/

Sounds like eyen · Rhymes with -aɪn

Where it comes from

A romanization of Arabic عَيْن (ʕayn), from Somali Cayn.

proper noun

  1. Synonym of Buhoodle, a district of Togdheer, Somalia.

    Similar: Buhoodle

Ayn³

  • /aɪn/

Sounds like eyen · Rhymes with -aɪn

proper noun

  1. A female given name.

AYN⁴

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Anarchist Youth Network

ayn⁵

  • /aɪn/

Rhymes with -aɪn

Where it comes from

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 (ʕ) (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only).

noun ayns

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

    Similar: ayin

ayn⁶

  • /aɪn/

Rhymes with -aɪn

Where it comes from

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

noun ayns

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

    Similar: ghayn

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@misc{ayn_2026,
  title = {ayn},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ayn},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}