أَيَّ as what in Arabic
أَيَّ is how you say “as what” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَجَعَلُوهُ بَيْنَهُمْ أَيَّ حَكَمًا
So they appointed him a judge among them.
أيْ as what
This is a clarifying particle that introduces a specification, roughly 'namely / that is'. Its job is to flag that the following noun spells out the role the man was put into, linking the verb 'made him' to the office that defines it.
The English is machine-translated.

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