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عَيْن
eye /ˈʕajn/
nounA1#278 most common
Also: spring (of water), water source, essence, self, the very thing, evil eye (the envious glance)
Example sentences
عَيْني تُؤْلِمُني.
My eye hurts.
لِلبِنتِ عُيونٌ جَميلة.
The girl has beautiful eyes.
شَرِبْنا الماءَ مِن عَيْنٍ في الجَبَل.
We drank water from a spring in the mountain.
يَخافُ الناسُ مِن عَيْنِ الحاسِد.
People fear the eye of the envious person.
وَصَلَ إلى عَيْنِ المَكان فَرَأى الحَقيقةَ بِنَفسِه.
He reached the very spot and saw the truth for himself.
لا تَرى العَيْنُ إلّا ما يُريدُ لها القَلْبُ أن تَراه.
The eye sees only what the heart wills it to see.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عَيْنٌ | عُيونٌ |
| Genitive | عَيْنٍ | عُيونٍ |
| Accusative | عَيْناً | عُيوناً |
| Vocative | يا عَيْنُ | يا عُيونُ |
Word family
عَيَّنَto appoint, to designate
مُعايَنةinspection, eyewitness examination
عَيِّنةsample, specimen
مَعِينflowing spring, water source
عِيانeyewitness observationEtymology
The word comes from the Proto-Semitic noun for eye. It is one of the oldest and most stable words in the Semitic family, kept with little change across the branches. From the sense of eye it extended to a spring of water, since a source seems to well up like a watching eye, and to the essence or self of a thing.
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