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Ayn

//aɪn// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A commune of Savoie department, France.
  2. 2
    Synonym of Buhoodle, a district of Togdheer, Somalia.
  3. 3
    A female given name.
  4. 4
    Initialism of Anarchist Youth Network. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of ayin, the various letters representing the consonant /ʕ/ in Semitic languages.
  2. 2
    Synonym of ghayn, the letter Ғ, representing the consonant /ʁ/ or /ɣ/, particularly in Kazakh.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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).

Etymology 4

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

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