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Dayan

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 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."

Noun
  1. 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Hebrew דיין.

Etymology 2

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

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