Ottoman Turkish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *badram (feast); cognate with Azerbaijani bayram, Bashkir байрам (bayram), Kazakh мейрам (meiram), Kyrgyz майрам (mayram), Turkmen baýram, Uyghur بايرام (bayram) and Uzbek bayram.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bajˈɾam/
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Noun

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بیرام (bayram)

  1. holy day, feast day, Eid, any of various religious festivals
    Synonym: عید (ʿid)

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Further reading

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  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bayram”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 513
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بیرام”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 138b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیرام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, pages 250–251
  • Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 183, page 16b
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Festum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 569
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بیرام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 982
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bayram”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیرام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 419
  • Sevortjan, E. V. (1978) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Nauka, pages 35–36