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zayn

n. The letter ز in the Arabic script.

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Zayn

Zayn is an alternative spelling of the Semitic letter Zayin and is also an alternative way of writing the Arabic name and family name Zein or Zain.

Zayn may refer to:

First name
  • Zayn al-‘Ābidīn, also known as ‘Alī ibn Ḥusayn, a great-grandson of Muhammad
  • Zayn Malik, also known as ZAYN, an English recording artist and former member of One Direction
  • Zayn Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi Arabian citizen held in U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay
  • Zayn-e-Attar (also known as Ali ibn Husayn Ansari Shirazi and as Haji Zayn Attar, a 14th-century Persian physician
Last name
  • Sami Zayn, the ring name of Canadian professional wrestler Rami Sebei

Usage examples of "zayn".

Don't you remember how we had to clear out of Fort Providence at five minutes' notice when Zayn al-Din's men came calling?

Before his capture by the Arabs, his brother Tom had coached Dorian in the art of boxing, but Zayn and Abubaker had never before come into contact with bunched, flying fists.

However, Zayn al-Din sat on the mighty Elephant Throne to this day, and was still Caliph of Oman.

He comes from the bosom of Zayn al-Din, and was once one of his trusted ministers and confidants.

Do you forget that I was at your side when you captured Zayn al-Din at the battle of Muscat and you roped him behind your camel and dragged him as a traitor to face the wrath and justice of al-Malik?

Like all who know him well, he became sickened to the heart by the monstrous cruelty of Zayn al-Din.

He watched while Zayn tore the sinews and the heart of the nation to shreds.

He tried to protest when Zayn sold his birthright to the Sublime Porte, to the Turkish tyrants in Constantinople.

In the end he was one of the chief conspirators in the plot against Zayn that overturned his throne and drove him out through the gates of Muscat.

Two hundred of your brothers and nephews were gathered up by Zayn al-Din's reapers.

In particular the desert tribes are hesitating to declare against Zayn and join our standard.

Despite what Kadem had told Dorian at the campfire, the strength of his oath to Zayn al-Din was matched only by his awareness of his duty to take vengeance on the man who had slain his father.

During the uprising that followed, Kadem had fought like a lion to protect his caliph, and in the end it was Kadem who had led Zayn al-Din through the maze of underground passages, under the palace walls to the ship waiting in the harbour of Muscat.

Had he failed in his duty to the peoples of Oman who were grinding under the cruel yoke of Zayn al-Din?

I came here to seek vengeance for the murder of my father and to carry out the will of my master Caliph Zayn al-Din ibn al-Malik.