Bairam

American  

[bahy-rahm, bahy-rahm] / baɪˈrɑm, ˈbaɪ rɑm /

noun

1. Eid al-Adha.

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Bairam British  

/ baɪˈræm, ˈbaɪræm /

noun

1. either of two Muslim festivals, one ( Lesser Bairam ) falling at the end of Ramadan, the other ( Greater Bairam ) 70 days later at the end of the Islamic year

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Etymology

Origin of Bairam

1590–1600; < Turkish bayram literally, holiday, festival, probably ultimately < Persian

Example Sentences

It was the 6th of January, the beginning of the feast of Bairam, the Mohammedan Passover.

From Project Gutenberg

Abdur-Raḥīm, son of Bairam Khān, whose Hindī dōhās and kabittas are still held in high estimation, and Faiẓī, brother of the celebrated Abul-Faẓl, the Emperor’s annalist.

From Project Gutenberg

The crescent glimmers on the hill, The Mosque's high lamps are quivering still: Though too remote for sound to wake In echoes of the far tophaike, The flashes of each joyous peal Are seen to prove the Moslem's zeal, To-night, set Rhamazani's sun; To-night, the Bairam feast's begun; To-night—but who and what art thou Of foreign garb and fearful brow?

From Project Gutenberg

But as the Princess used to overstep the fashions of the East in many points, so by degrees, while she grew to like the garden more and more, and to pay it several visits daily, she began to feel obstructed and annoyed by the attendance of her guard sallying out before her in solemn parade, as if the Sultan had been riding to Mosque in the Bairam festival.

From Project Gutenberg

Shawwal is the month that follows it, which begins with the great feast of Bairam, the festival referred to in line 4.

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