Ayyu

[maidink]

Assalamualaikum,
I missed Br Asif's explanation of the word Ayyu
What word is أَيُّ , is it harf?,
is ayyu always mudhaf?
so the word coming after ayyu is always muthaf ilaihi?
Is the muthaf ilaihi coming after ayyu always tanween kasrah?


Wassalaam.

[hassan]

wa alaikumussalaam.
Ayyun is a noun meaning "which". And it mostly comes as a mudaaf. In madina books we have learned its mudaaf form.
If you missed the explanation then you can find it here at 45m25s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5u-RcwksMA&t=45m25s

[maidink]

thank you br.

[benss]

'aleikoum salâm wa rahmatoullâh wa barakâtouh,

following brother hassan's post, I just wanted to add some comments or things that may be relevant and good to know
about أَيّ .

Originally Posted by maidink

What word is أَيُّ , is it harf?

أَيّ is an اِسم . It is more preciselly an اِسم استفهام. As it falls into the category of اِسم , one must automatically wonder whether it is mu'rab or mabni: indeed, we know that the asmâ are of two kinds, mu'rab or mabni.

Among all the asmâ al-istifhâm أَيّ is the only one which is mu'rab, all the rest is mabni.
For instance we have:

أَيُّ يَوْمٍ هَذَا ؟ (مبتدأ مرفوع)ء
أَيَّ كتابِ تَقْرَأُ ؟ (مفعول به منصوب)ء
في أَيِّ كتابِ كتبتَ الدرس ؟ (اسم مجرور)ء

Originally Posted by maidink

is ayyu always mudhaf?
so the word coming after ayyu is always muthaf ilaihi?

That's at least how we've studied it.
By the way, you probably did not noticed an important point regarding the idâfa (annexation):
only nouns are concerned by the Idâfa. I mean: knowing that أَيّ comes as mudâf, then one must know that it is necessarily and by deduction an Ism (a harf or a fi'l cannot be mudâf or mudâf ilaihi). The idâfa is a "properity" that only concerns nouns, as much as tanween only concern nouns.
From that, we can dervied a general rule:
any word that can be mudâf or mudâf ilaihi is necessarily an Ism.

Originally Posted by maidink

Is the muthaf ilaihi coming after ayyu always tanween kasrah?

Your question is a bite ambiguous.
If you meant: "Is mudâf ilaihi coming after ayyu always majrour or in a place of a ism majrour ?", the answer is YES
If you meant: "Is mudâf ilaihi coming after ayyu always majrour WITH KASRA ?", the answer is NO
If you meant: "Is mudâf ilaihi coming after ayyu always WITH TANWEEN?", the answer is NO

Hope this give us more insight regarding about أَيّ .

[Abdullah Al-Narwej]

Originally Posted by benss

أَيُّ يَوْمٍ هَذَا ؟ (مبتدأ مرفوع)ء

isn't 'ayyu' khabar in this sentence? i don't see how 'hadha' could be khabar..

[irf2k]

Asslamu alaikum
It is khabar.
Wassalaam