ƹayn

plural ƹayns

1. datedrarehuman sciencesSynonym of ayin.

   ع عين ƹayn ƹ [ʕ]

   [2024 October 31, Simon Ager, Michael Peter Füstumum, “Sudanese Arabic language”, in Omniglot

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   The [Arabic] (3ayn) has no correspondence in English. It's produced by tightening the back of the throat and then speaking a vowel through it.

   2008 November 19, Keith Massey, Intermediate Arabic For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 63

   The main objective is to ascertain embodiment through outer body parts, and the experience 3ayn profiles in one dialect of Arabic.

   2011, Zouheir A. Maalej, Ning Yu, Embodiment Via Body Parts: Studies from Various Languages and Cultures, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 214

   So, for example, while 2, 3 and 7 have become conventional signs for writing ء (hamza), ع (ƹayn) and ح (ḥā') respectively, ways of writing خ (xā) and غ (ġayn) are in free variation in Egypt – 5, 7, and kh for خ, and 3, 5, and gh for غ.

   2011, Ivan Panović, Writing Practices in Contemporary Egypt (thesis), University of Oxford, 1.5. Franco, page 59

   It has sounds from many languages... for example it has the sound "kha", the pronunciation of "kha", the "ghayn", the ... uh ... the "3ayn", the "Ha", so there are a lot of things that don't exist in other languages[…]

   2014 November 4, Matthew Aldrich, Arabic Voices 2: Authentic Listening and Reading Practice in Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Dialects, Lingualism.com, page 13

   Synonyms: ayin