ע' היא האות ה-16 באלפבית העברי, שמה עי"ן (עַיִן) (בפי יהודי תימן עאן) הוא בהתאם לצורתה, צורת עין (האיבר), בכתב העברי הקדום.

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Noun
1. the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
(hypernym) letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
(member-holonym) Hebrew alphabet, Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew script

n. ceremony, rite, service; litany, observance, ordinance, ritual, sacrament

n. moon, earth's natural satellite; month

v. awake, wake, arouse (someone); be woken up, be aroused (i.e. from sleep)

n. bear, large mammal of the family Ursidae, bruin; boor

`Eyn Soph (Hebrew) Also Ain Soph, Ayn Soph, Eyn Suph, Ein Soph, etc. No-thing, the negatively existent one, or the no-thing of space corresponding closely in some respects to the mystical sunyata of Mahayana Buddhism. Used in the Qabbalah for that which is above Kether or Macroprosopus, i.e., no-thing. "It is so named because we do not know, and it is impossible to know, that which there is in this Principle, because it never descends as far as our ignorance and because it is above Wisdom itself" (Zohar iii, 288b).
Strictly speaking, 'eyn signifies abstract Be-ness or the vast spatial deep in which all existences take their rise. Anything that is existent is a production and exists; and the womb of being or Be-ness, from which existences arise, is not only the cause of all existences but likewise their field of action -- the spatial deeps. Often wrongly translated as "nothing"; but Be-ness is certainly not nothing, but essential, full Be-ness itself.

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Ain Soph Aur. See 'EYN SOPH 'OR

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En (Hebrew). See 'EYN; 'EIN 'OR

"rite; ceremony"