عيد

• IPA^(key): /ʕiːd/

عِيد • (ʕīd) m (plural أَعْيَاد (ʔaʕyād))

1. feast; holiday; festival

   يَتَبَادَلُ النَّاسُ التَّهَانِي وَالْهَدَايَا فِي أَيَّامِ الْعِيدِ.

   yatabādalu n-nāsu t-tahānī wālhadāyā fī ʔayyāmi l-ʕīdi.

   People exchange greetings and gifts during the holiday.

2. festivity; gala; carnival

• Maltese: Għid
• → Classical Persian: عِید (īd) (see there for further descendants)
• → Ottoman Turkish: عید
  • Turkish: id
• → Kazakh: айт (ait)

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 276
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 218

Denominal verb from عِيد (ʕīd, “festival”).

• IPA^(key): /ʕaj.ja.da/

عَيَّدَ • (ʕayyada) II (non-past يُعَيِّدُ (yuʕayyidu), verbal noun تَعْيِيد (taʕyīd))

1. to hold a feast
2. to celebrate
3. to congratulate (someone) on the occasion of a feast

• IPA^(key): /ʕi.jad/

عِيَد • (ʕiyad) f pl

1. plural of عَادَة (ʕāda)

عِيدَ • (ʕīda) (form I) /ʕiː.da/

1. third-person masculine singular past passive of عَادَ (ʕāda)

Inherited from Arabic عِيد (ʕīd), related to the root ع و د.

• IPA^(key): /ʕiːd/

عيد • (ʕīd) m (plural أعياد (ʔaʕyād))

1. holiday, feast day, festival

Inherited from Arabic عَيَّدَ (ʕayyada). Synchronically a denominal verb of عِيد (ʕīd, “holiday”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʕaj.jad/

عيّد • (ʕayyad) II (non-past يعيّد (yʕayyid))

1. to celebrate (a religious holiday)
2. to greet or congratulate on the occasion of a holiday

Causative of عاد (ʕād, “to repeat (something)”), itself from the originally causative Arabic أَعَادَ (ʔaʕāda, literally “to cause to return”), although it lost this connection and was able to have a causative derived from it again when it became a form I verb in Levantine Arabic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʕaj.jad/

عيّد • (ʕayyad) II (non-past يعيّد (yʕayyid))

1. (transitive, ditransitive) to cause to repeat (something)

   عيدني ياها شي أربع خمس مرات قال تا ما ينسى قام نسي

   ʕayyadni yāha šī ʔarbaʕ ḵams marrāt ʔāl ta ma yinsa ʔām nisi

   He made me repeat it like four or five times so that he 'wouldn’t forget' and then he forgot

From على يدّ (ʕala yadd) or ع يدّ (ʕa yadd, literally “on the hand of”), apparently while a form يدّ (yadd, “hand”) was still in use for what is now predominantly إيد (ʔīd, “hand”).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.ˈjadd/

عيدّ • (ʕayadd)

1. (South Lebanon, Beqaa, Syrian Qalamoun) because of, due to

   Alternative form: علدّ (ʕaladd)

• → Western Neo-Aramaic: [script needed] (ʕayatt-, “because”)

Inherited from Arabic عَيَّدَ (ʕayyada).

• IPA^(key): /ʕaj.jad/, [ˈʕaj.jad]

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عيّد • (ʕayyad) II (present بعيّد (biʕayyed))

1. to celebrate (a religious holiday)
2. to greet or congratulate on the occasion of a holiday

   Synonyms: بارك (bārak), (Galilee) عايد (ʕāyad)

From Arabic عِيد (ʕīd), related to the root ع و د.

• IPA^(key): /ʕiːd/, [ʕiːd]

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عيد • (ʕīd) m (plural أعياد (ʔaʕyād))

1. holiday, feast day, festival

• العيد الزغير (il-ʕīd iz-zḡīr, “Eid al-Fitr”), عيد الفطر (ʕīd il-fiṭr, “Eid al-Fitr”)
• العيد الكبير (il-ʕīd lᵉ-kbīr, “Eid al-Adha”), عيد الأضحى (ʕīd il-ʔaḍḥa, “Eid al-Adha”)
• عيد الميلاد (ʕīd il-mīlād, “Christmas”)
• عيد الفصح (ʕīd il-fiṣḥ, “Passover; Easter”)