Bayt (Arabic: بيت or Hebrew: בית, both meaning 'house'; there are similar words in various Semitic languages), also spelled bayit, bayyit, bait, beit, beth, bet, etc., may refer to:
All pages with titles containing Bayt
Jewish religious terms
- Temple Mount, Hebrew Har ha-Bayit, "Mount of the House"
- Beth Israel, "House of Israel"
Islamic terms
- Ahl al-Bayt, the People of the House, referring to the household of Muhammad or to all pious Muslims
Synagogues
- Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto, an Orthodox synagogue in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
Place-names and derivates
In alphabetical order including the articles.
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A few outstanding ones:
- Bayt al-Allah (the Kaaba)
- Bayt al-Muqaddas (Jerusalem)
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Institutions and organizations
First see above under "All pages with titles beginning with Bayt" and "All pages with titles containing Bayt". Here only those not spelled with "bayt".
- Bayit Lepletot, Orthodox Jewish orphanage for girls
- Bayit Leumi Israeli political organization
- Bayit Yehudi – 'The Jewish Home' political party
- Bayt al-hikmah (House of Wisdom); Umayyad library in Damascus, and Abbasid library in Baghdad
- Betar/Beitar, Jewish political organization; derived from Betar fortress
Other
- Bayt (poetry), lit. 'house', a metrical unit of Asian poetry
See also
- Bet (disambiguation)
- Bet (letter), derived from the hyeroglyph for house
- Beth (disambiguation)
This page was last edited on 15 June 2024, at 13:08