مُنَادَى
munada
Vocative noun (munada)
Nahw · syntaxSyntactic rolecore term504+ in the Qur'an
In one line
The noun being called — what comes after the vocative particle يا.
Classical definition
المُنَادَى هُوَ الاسْمُ المَطْلُوبُ إِقْبَالُهُ بِحَرْفِ نِدَاءٍ نَائِبٍ مَنَابَ «أَدْعُو».
(الآجرّومية)
How to spot it
Recognition test
The noun directly after يا (or another call-particle) is the munada.
In the Qur'an
يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا
Al-Baqarah 2:104 — “O you who have believed”
أَيُّ is the munada after the call-particle يا.
Related terms
Domain: Nahw · Category: Syntactic role · Frequency in the Qur'an: 504 · Source: الآجرّومية, cross-checked against the Quranic corpus · Reviewed by Ustad M. Arjan Ali