Arabic vocabulary
أَيَّas what in Arabic
أَيَّ is how you say “as what” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
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.
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