أي

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أَيّ • (ʾayy) m or f

1. which ...? what ...? what kind of ...? (followed by a noun in the genitive or a personal suffix)

   ‏مِنْ أَيِّ بَلَدٍ أَنْتَ؟‎‎

   min ʾayyi baladin ʾanta?

   From which country are you?

2. whichever

   ‏أَيَّ كِتَابٍ تَقْرَأْ يُفِدْكَ‎

   ʾayya kitābin taqraʾ yufidka

   Whichever book you read, it'll benefit you.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 17:110:

     ‏أَيًّا مَّا تَدۡعُوا۟ فَلَهُ ٱلۡأسۡمَاۤءُ ٱلۡحُسۡنَىٰ‎

     ʾayyam mā tadʿū fa-lahu l-ʾasmāʾu l-ḥusnā

     [... by] whatever [name] you call upon [Him], to Him belongs the best names.

3. any

   ‏زُرْنِي فِي أَيِّ وَقْتٍ‎

   zurnī fī ʾayyi waqtin

   Visit me at any time.

• أَيٌّ مَا‎ (ʾayyun mā)

أَيْ • (ʾay)

1. (conjunctive) that is to say, namely, i.e.

• Haywood, J.A.; Nahmad, H.M. (1965), “أي”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2^nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN