יין

Related to Ugaritic 𐎊𐎐 (yn), Akkadian 𒅆 (īnu) (borrowed from Canaanite), Arabic وَيْن‎ (wayn), Ge'ez ወይን (wäyn, “grapevine, wine”) (Amharic ወይን (wäyn)).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈja(j)in/

יַיִן • (yáyin) m (plural indefinite יֵינוֹת‎, singular construct יֵין־, plural construct יֵינֵי־‎) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. wine (fermented grape juice)

   ‏אני אוהב יינות אדומים ואחי מעדיף יינות לבנים.‎‎

   aní ohév yeinót adumím v'akhí ma'adíf yeinót l'vaním.

   I love red wines and my brother prefers white wines.

   • Genesis 9:21, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     ‏וַיֵּשְׁתְּ מִן־הַיַּיִן וַיִּשְׁכָּר וַיִּתְגַּל בְּתוֹךְ אָהֳלֹה׃‎‎

     vayésht min-hayáyin vayishkár vayitgál b'tókh 'oholó.
     wayyēšt min-hayyáyin wayyiškār wayyiṯgal bəṯōḵ ʾohŏlō.

     And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

2. (by implication) intoxication

• → Yiddish: יין‎‎ (yayin)
  • → Dutch: jajem

• H3196 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979