Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Zayin (also spelled Zain or Zayn or simply Zay) is the seventh letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician 𐤆, Aramaic, Hebrew ז, Syriac ܙ and Perso-Arabic alphabet ز (see below). It represents the sound [z].The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek zeta (Ζ), Etruscan z Z, Latin Z, and Cyrillic Ze З.The Phoenician letter appears to be named after a sword or other weapon. (In Biblical Hebrew, zayin (זין) means sword, and the verb lezayen (לזיין) means to arm. In modern Hebrew, zayin (זין) means penis and lezayen (לזין) is a vulgar term which generally means to perform sexual intercourse and is used in a similar fashion to the English word fuck, although the older meaning survives in "maavak mezuyan" (armed struggle) (מאבק מזוין) and "beton mezuyan" (בטון מזוין) (armed, i.e., reinforced concrete). The Proto-Sinaitic glyph according to Brian Colless may have been called ziqq, based on a hieroglyph depicting a "manacle".. }
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- Zayin abstract "Zayin (also spelled Zain or Zayn or simply Zay) is the seventh letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician 𐤆, Aramaic, Hebrew ז, Syriac ܙ and Perso-Arabic alphabet ز (see below). It represents the sound [z].The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek zeta (Ζ), Etruscan z Z, Latin Z, and Cyrillic Ze З.The Phoenician letter appears to be named after a sword or other weapon. (In Biblical Hebrew, zayin (זין) means sword, and the verb lezayen (לזיין) means to arm. In modern Hebrew, zayin (זין) means penis and lezayen (לזין) is a vulgar term which generally means to perform sexual intercourse and is used in a similar fashion to the English word fuck, although the older meaning survives in "maavak mezuyan" (armed struggle) (מאבק מזוין) and "beton mezuyan" (בטון מזוין) (armed, i.e., reinforced concrete). The Proto-Sinaitic glyph according to Brian Colless may have been called ziqq, based on a hieroglyph depicting a "manacle".".