Eid
noun /iːd/
/iːd/
(also Id)
- one of the two main Muslim festivals, either Eid ul-Fitr /iːd ʌl fɪtə(r)/ at the end of Ramadan, or Eid ul-Adha /iːd ʌl ʌdə/, which celebrates the end of the pilgrimage to Mecca and Abraham’s sacrifice of a sheepTopics Religion and festivalsc2Word Originfrom Arabic ‘īd ‘feast’, from Aramaic.