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min·yan

Audio Help [Seph. meen-yahn; Ashk., Eng. min-yuh

n] Pronunciation Key

–noun, plural min·yan·im

Audio Help [Seph. meen-yah-neem; Ashk. min-yaw-nim] Pronunciation Key, English. min·yans. Hebrew.

1.	the number of persons required by Jewish law to be present to conduct a communal religious service, traditionally a minimum of 10 Jewish males over 13 years of age.

2.	such a group.

[Origin: minyān lit., number

]

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Min·yan

Audio Help [min-yuh

n] Pronunciation Key Classical Mythology

–adjective

1.	descended from Minyas.

2.	being or pertaining to a gray, wheel-thrown pottery produced in ancient Greece during the early part of the Helladic period, c2000 b.c.

–noun

3.	Minyans. Also, Min·yae Audio Help [min-yee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. the descendants of Minyas who inhabited Orchomenus in Boeotia and Iolcus in Thessaly.

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min·yan Audio Help (mĭn'yən, mēn-yän') Pronunciation Key
n. pl. min·ya·nim (mēn-yä-nēm', mĭn-yô'nĭm) or min·yans (mĭn'yənz)
The minimum number of ten adult Jews or, among the Orthodox, Jewish men required for a communal religious service.

[Hebrew minyān, number, minyan, from Aramaic minyānā, from mənā, to count; see mnw in Semitic roots.]

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