أَيَّانَ
1.
, (T, S, M, &c.,) of the measure فَعَّال, or it may be of the measure فَعْلَان, (Msb,) also pronounced
إِيَّانَ, (T, S, M, K,) the latter of the dialect of Suleym, mentioned by Fr, (T, S,) and by Zj, (M,) is an interrogative respecting a time, (T, S, Msb,) but only respecting a time not come: (T:) signifying When? (S, M, Msb;) at what time? (Msb, K:) it is feminine; but may be made masculine: (Lh, M:) and it may be pronounced with imáleh, though not belonging to a class of words regularly subject to imáleh. (TA.) It is said in the Qur'an, 16:22 and xxvii. 67], according to different readings, أَيَّانَ يُبْعَثُونَ or
إِيَّانِ [When they shall be raised to life]; (T, S, M;) i. e. when shall be the resurrection. (Aboo-Is-hák, T.) But you may not say, أَيَّانَ فَعَلْتَ ذَاكَ as meaning When didst thou that? (T.)
2.
IJ says that, were it synonym with مَتَى, it would be conditional; whereas it was not mentioned by his colleagues among the adverbs used conditionally, as مَتَى and أَيْنَ &c.: but sometimes it has a conditional meaning, though that meaning be not explicit. (M.) A poet says,
[When we grant thee security, thou wilt be secure from others than us; and when thou obtainest not security from us, thou wilt not cease to be in a state of fear]. (I 'Ak p. 300.)أَيَّانَ نُوءْمِنْكَ تَأْمَنْ غَيْرَنَا وَ إِذَالَمْ تُدْرِكِ الأَمْنَ مِنَّا لَمْ تَزَلْ حَذِرَا