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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The name of two festivals in the Mohammedan year, distinguished as the lesser and the greater.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Either of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one (the Lesser Bairam) is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other (the Greater Bairam) seventy days after the fast.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun two Muslim festivals held after Ramadan.

Etymologies

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Turkish bayram

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