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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
minyan is a noun meaning "the quorum required by Jewish law to be present for public worship (at least ten males over thirteen years of age)". It carries one recorded sense.
the quorum required by Jewish law to be present for public worship (at least ten males over thirteen years of age)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for minyan come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.