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Ayn Al-Arab
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Ayn may refer to: * Ayin or , a letter in many Semitic scripts * Ayn, Savoie, a commune of the Savoie département of France * Ghayn (Cyrillic) (Ғ,ғ), a letter used in the Bashkir, Kazakh, and Tajik alphabets * Ayn Rand, Russian-born American novelist and philosopher * Anyang Airport, China, IATA code AYN * San'ani Arabic (ISO 639-3 ayn), an Arabic dialect spoken in Yemen * Al Ain, a city in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates * Cayn, or Ayn, a disputed region of Somaliland See also * Ain (other) * Al Ayn (other) El Ain, also written Al Ain and Al Ayn, is a transliteration of ar, ٱلْعَيْن, and may refer to: * Al Ain, a city in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates **Al Ain Region **Al Ain Oasis **Al Ain FC, a football club * Al-Ayn, Oman, an archaeolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayin
''Ayin'' (also ''ayn'' or ''ain''; transliterated ) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts, including Phoenician , Hebrew , Aramaic , Syriac ܥ, and Arabic (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only). The letter represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative () or a similarly articulated consonant. In some Semitic languages and dialects, the phonetic value of the letter has changed, or the phoneme has been lost altogether (thus, in the revived Modern Hebrew it is reduced to a glottal stop or is omitted entirely in part due to European influence). The Phoenician letter is the origin of the Greek, Latin and Cyrillic letter O, O and O. It is the origin of letter Ƹ. Origins The letter name is derived from Proto-Semitic "eye", and the Phoenician letter had the shape of a circle or oval, clearly representing an eye, perhaps ultimately (via Proto-Sinaitic) derived from the ''ı͗r'' hieroglyph ( Gardiner D4). The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayn, Savoie
Ayn (; frp, Ayin) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan ar .... See also * Communes of the Savoie department References Communes of Savoie {{Savoie-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghayn (Cyrillic)
The Cyrillic letter Ge stroke (Ғ ғ) Italics: ''Ғ ғ'' is a Г with a horizontal stroke. It is used in Kazakh and Uzbek where it represents a voiced uvular fricative . Despite having a similar shape, it is not related to the F of the Latin alphabet. In Kazakh, this letter may also represent the voiced velar fricative . In the Uzbek Latin Alphabet, this letter corresponds to Gʻ. The letter is also used in Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Tajik, Karakalpak, Shor, Siberian Tatar, and Nivkh. Unicode renders this letter as "Ghe with stroke". it is possible that this may have been inspired by the Greek Digamma. Usage Computing codes See also * Ge * Kazakh language * Uzbek language * Azerbaijani language * Bashkir language * Karakalpak language * Siberian Tatar language * Tajik language * Ğ ğ: Latin letter G with breve * Ge with middle hook * Ge with stroke and hook Ge with stroke and hook (Ӻ ӻ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, formed from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayn Rand
Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;, . Most sources transliterate her given name as either ''Alisa'' or ''Alissa''. , 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (), was a Russian-born American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful and two Broadway theatre, Broadway plays, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, ''The Fountainhead''. In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel ''Atlas Shrugged''. Afterward, until her death in 1982, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own Objectivist periodicals, periodicals and releasing several collections of essays. Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge; she rejected faith and religion. She supported Rational egoism, rational and ethical e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anyang Airport
Anyang Airport is a military airport in the city of Anyang in Henan Province Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is al ..., China. See also * List of airports in China * List of the busiest airports in China References {{authority control Airports in Henan Defunct airports in China Anyang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Ain
Al Ain ( ar, ٱلْعَيْن, , ) is a city in the western side of Tuwwam region and the seat of the administrative division of its namesake, Al Ain in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It is bordered to the east by the Omani town of Al-Buraimi in the Al Buraimi Governorate. It is the largest inland city in the Emirates, the fourth-largest city (after Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah), and the second-largest in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The freeways connecting Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai form a geographic triangle in the country, each city being roughly from the other two. Al-Ain is known as the "Garden City" ( ar, مَدِيْنَة ٱلْحَدِيْقَة, Madīnat Al-Ḥadīqah, lit=City of The Garden) of Abu Dhabi, the UAE or the Gulf, due to its greenery, particularly with regard to the city's oases, parks, tree-lined avenues and decorative roundabouts, with there being strict height controls on new buildings, to no more than seven floors, and acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cayn
Cayn or Ayn is an administrative region that Puntland declared to be founded in the 2000s. However, the administrative division of Somaliland defines it as Buhoodle District in Togdheer, and Somaliland effectively controls it with the exception of Buhoodle and some other parts. It is bordered by Togdheer to the west, Sool to the east, and Ethiopia to the south. Its capital is Buuhoodle. As an intra-46th meridian east territory, Buuhoodle has a tradition of being external to European colonial rule or convention. Overview Centered on the town of Buuhoodle, Cayn is disputed by Somaliland and Puntland. According to Somaliland, the Cayn area claimed by Puntland is regarded a separate region dubbed ''Buuhoodle region''. As with much of northern Somalia, most local residents in the Cayn region are nomadic pastoralists. The region was formerly part of Togdheer region. Cayn was part of the Las Anod-Nogal District from 1944 with Las Anod as capital until 1974 when the Siad Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puntland–Somaliland Dispute
The Puntland–Somaliland dispute is a territorial dispute over the provinces of Sool, Sanaag and the Buuhoodle district of Togdheer region between the self-declared Republic of Somaliland and the Puntland state of Somalia. Background 1894 border The territory was historically part of British Somaliland, a British protectorate that granted independence in 1960 and then formed a union with neighboring Italian colony Trust Territory of Somaliland to form the Somali Republic. When the Somaliland War of Independence was concluded and the Somali Civil War broke out, Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 as a successor state to the British protectorate and declared independence from Somalia. The dispute started in 1998, when Puntland was formed as an autonomous state of Somalia and declared the region as part of its territory based on tribal affiliation of the locals. Clan border Puntland claims Sool, Sanaag and Cayn based on kinship ties with the regions' d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ain (other)
Ain is a département of France. Ain or AIN may also refer to: Language *Ain (letter) or , a letter in Semitic scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew * Ainu language (ISO-639 alpha-3 code AIN) Medical * Anal intraepithelial neoplasia, a precursor to anal cancer * Anterior interosseous nerve serving the forearm * Acute interstitial nephritis, nephritis affecting the interstitium of the kidneys People Given name * Ain (given name), a common Estonian masculine given name. Surname * Gregory Ain (1908–1988), American architect * Kenneth B. Ain, American endocrinologist and author Fictional *Ain (mythology), an Irish mythological figure Places * Ain (Bible), a biblical city * ‘Ain Dawwah, one of the springs of Wadi Bani Khalid, Oman * Ain (river), a river in eastern France * Al Ain, a city in the United Arab Emirates * Ain, Iran, a village in Qazvin Province, Iran * Aín, a town in eastern Spain * Ain, Lucknow, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India *El Ain (other), several p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
