Eid

Meaning

1. Numerous places in Norway:
2. Alternative letter-case form of Eid.
3. Any of various Muslim religious festivals.
4. Synonym of Aith: a village in Mainland, Shetland, Northern Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom.
5. A parish of Kvinnherad, Sunnhordland district, Hordaland borough, Vestland, Western Norway.
6. A parish of Rauma, Møre og Romsdal, Western Norway.
7. A parish of Stad, Nordfjord district, Sogn og Fjordane borough, Vestland, Western Norway.
8. An isthmus or narrow neck of land jutting out into the sea; a sandbank cast up by the sea across the head of an open bight or inlet and having a lagoon inside it.
9. Ellipsis of Eid al-Fitr.

Etymology / origin

Borrowed from Arabic عِيد (ʕīd, “feast, holiday, festival”) via Iranian Persian عید ('eyd), ultimately from Classical Syriac ܥܐܕܐ.

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