Bayt (بيت, בית) is the Arabic and Hebrew word for house, deriving from a common Semitic root that also gave rise to the name of the letter Bet.

It appears in several names, such as:

• Ahl al-Bayt, the People of the House (or family), referring to the household of Muhammad or to all pious Muslims
• Bayt al-Hikmah, the House of Wisdom, an Abbasid-era library in Baghdad
• Bayt Lahm, the Arabic name for Bethlehem
• BAYT, Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto, an Orthodox synagogue in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada.
• Bayt.com, a recruitment website for the Middle East and North Africa.
• Bayt can refer to a verse of classical Persian, Turkic or Arabic poetry

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