paytan

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noun

The writer of a piyyut.

OriginHebrew פַּיְטָן →
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Meanings

nounpaytan (plural paytans or paytanim)

plural paytans · plural paytanim · alternative payetan · alternative payyetan

  1. The writer of a piyyut.

    The Oriental rabbis who settled in Germany, coming via Italy and France, were also precentors, chazzanim, and paytanim (poets).

    1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 134

Origin

  1. Hebrewפַּיְטָן
  2. Englishpaytan

Borrowed from Hebrew פַּיְטָן (paytán).

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