بیرام

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بایرام (bayram)

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /bajˈɾam/

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Noun

بیرام • (bayram)

1. holy day, feast day, Eid, any of various religious festivals

   Synonym: عید (ʿid)

Derived terms

• بیراملق (bayramlık, “anything pertaining to a festival”)
• خامورسز بیرامی (hamursuz bayramı, “Passover”)
• خمسین بیرامی (hamsin bayramı, “Pentecost”)
• رمضان بیرامی (ramazan bayramı, “Eid al-Fitr”)
• شكر بیرامی (şeker bayramı, “Eid al-Fitr”)
• قامش بیرامی (kamış bayramı, “Sukkot”)
• قربان بیرامی (kurban bayramı, “Eid al-Adha”)
• قندیل بیرامی (kandil bayramı, “festival of the lamps”)
• چوراب بیرامی (çorab bayramı, “Jewish feast of the return to Zion”)
• گل بیرامی (gül bayramı, “Shavuot”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: bayram
• → Albanian: Bajram, Barjam
• → Armenian: պարյամ (paryam), բայրամ (bayram)
• → Bulgarian: байра́м (bajrám)
• → Greek: μπαϊράμι (baïrámi)
• → French: baïram
• → Hungarian: bajrám
• → Romanian: bairam
• → Russian: байра́м (bajrám)
• → Serbo-Croatian: Bàjram / Ба̀јрам, Bàrjam / Ба̀рјам

Further reading

• 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