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dayan¹

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Borrowed from Hebrew דיין.

noun dayans · dayanim · dayyan

  1. A rabbinic judge. 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.

Dayan²

Where it comes from

Jewish surname from Hebrew דַּיָּן (“rabbinic judge”).

proper noun Dayans

  1. A surname from Hebrew. The Samson Option states that Moshe Dayan gave the go-ahead for starting weapon production in early 1968, putting the plutonium separation plant into full operation.

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@misc{dayan_2026,
  title = {dayan},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dayan},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}