zayin
Americannoun
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the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
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the consonant sound represented by this letter.
noun
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Origin of zayin
1895–1900; < Hebrew, akin to zayin weapon
Example Sentences
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Here, one finds a lesson on how easy it is to make up words — a tattoo parlor called, essentially, “tattooism,” using the Hebrew letters yud, zayin, mem to add “ism.”
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