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How to pronounce ayin in English?

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Examples of ayin

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Ayin and Theo were playing next to a watering hole on the property not far from my sister's sight.
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I have now put the modifier letter left half ring for Arabic ayin.
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The apostrophe is not the proper way to transliterate ayin.
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Ayin hadn't helped him either,as his arms would've been to short to have reached down into this hole to help his brother up and out of.
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They did not need letters for the guttural sounds represented by aleph, he, heth or ayin, so these symbols were assigned vocalic values.
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Dervishes of the Mevlevi sect simply dance a sema by turning continuously to music that consists of long, complex compositions called ayin.
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The sound represented by ayin is common to much of the Afrasiatic language family, such as the Egyptian, Cushitic, and Semitic languages.
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Our final night in Istanbul found us in the station's old ticket hall, watching whirling dervishes spinning in gyroscopic serenity to the haunting strains of the ayin.
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More examples
  • The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
  • Ayin or Ayn is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic abjad, including Phoenician u02BFayin , Hebrew u02BFayin u05E2, Aramaic u02BFu0113 , Syriac u02BFu0113 u0725, and Arabic u02BFayn u0639 (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only). uFEC9 comes twentyu2010first in the Persian alphabet and eighteenth in the hijau02BEi order of Arabic.
  • Nothingness; in addition, the first emanation of the Sefirtot, Keter, is sometimes described as ayin.
  • Emptiness; nothingness.