نیین

नैयन naiyan, s.m.=نین nayanor nain, q.v.و wāwor wā`o, is the thirty-third letter of the Urdū alphabet (the thirtieth of the Persian, and the twenty-sixth of the Arabic alphabet). As a consonant (that is to say, when it stands at the beginning of a word or syllable) it has the sound of the English w (or, occasionally, of v), and corresponds to व waor va, the twenty-ninth consonant of the Nāgarīor Hindīalphabet. This letter is very commonly interchanged with b; for all words therefore beginning with wor v, but not found in the following pages, see under the letter b.The letter wā`onot beginning a word or syllable is termed ḥarf-ě-`illat, 'a weak letter,' and serves with the vowel-points ẓammaand fatḥawritten over the preceding consonant to form the long vowels ūand oand the diphthong au, as has been shown at the commencement of this work. In reckoning by abjad (q.v.), the letter wā`ostands for 6; and in ephemerides it represents Friday, and the sign Libra.