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Ayn vs Aya - What's the difference?

ayn | aya |

As a noun ayn

is the letter in the arabic script.

As an adverb aya is

there, over there.

ayn

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • Ayn, Savoie, a commune of the Savoie département of France
  • Ayn, Somalia (or Cayn), a region defined by the autonomous state of Puntland

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    aya

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • (archaic, dialect, New England) yes; yea; aye.
  • * 1938 , Thornton Wilder, Our Town: A Play in Three Acts , Coward-McCann and Samuel French (1965), ISBN 0743223136:
  • *:“The date is May 7, 1901, just before dawn. (COCK CROW offstage.) Aya, just about.”
  • * 2001 , David McCullough, John Adams , Simon & Schuster (2001), ISBN 0573613494:
  • *:“And for all her reading, her remarkable knowledge of English poetry and literature, she was never to lose certain countrified Yankee patterns of speech, saying 'Canady' for Canada, as an example, using 'set' for sit, or the old New England 'aya,' for yes.”
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