1. AyinAyin or ʿayin is the sixteenth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew ע and Arabic ʿayn ع. It is the twenty-first letter in the new Persian alphabet (similar to an o but silent). It represents a sound like a voiced pharyngeal fricative, which has no equivalent in English. There are many possible transliterations, most commonly ʿ, U+02BF ʿ modifier letter left half ring . For details, see section Transliteration.
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