Bairam

[ bahy-rahm, bahy-rahm ]

noun

1. Eid al-Adha.

Bairam

/ 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Bairam¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Bairam¹

from Turkish bayrām

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

My dear mistress had informed me that the Turkish Bairam began that very morning, and would last three days during which it would be impossible for her to see me.

From Project Gutenberg

The night after Bairam, she did not fail to make her appearance, and, saying that she could not be happy without me, she told me that, as she was a Christian woman, I could buy her, if I waited for her after leaving the lazzaretto.

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?

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