Eid

See also: EID, eID, eid, eið, -eid, 'eid, 'Eid, and e-ID

English

Etymology 1

From Arabic عِيد (ʕīd) via Persian عید ('eyd), ultimately from Classical Syriac ܥܐܕܐ.

Alternative forms

• 'Eid, 'eid, Id

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iːd/
• Rhymes: -iːd

Noun

Eid (plural Eids)

1. (Islam) Any of various Muslim religious festivals.

Proper noun

Eid (plural Eids)

1. Ellipsis of Eid al-Fitr.

Derived terms

• Eid al-Adha
• Eid al-Fitr
• Eid Mubarak

 

Translations

Muslim religious festival

• Albanian: bajram (sq) m
• Arabic: عِيد (ar) m (ʕīd)
• Armenian: բայրամ (hy) (bayram)
• Azerbaijani: bayram (az)
• Bashkir: байрам (bayram), ғәйет (ğəyet)
• Bulgarian: байра́м m (bajrám)
• Burmese: အစ် (my) (ac), ဘက္ကဒီးအစ် (bhakka.di:ac)
• Chinese:

  Dungan: эди (edi), эрди (erdi)

  Mandarin: 爾代節／尔代节 (ěrdàijié), 爾德／尔德 (zh) (ěrdé)

• Crimean Tatar: bayram
• Czech: íd m
• Finnish: id (fi)
• French: Aïd (fr)
• Gujarati: ઈદ f (īd), તહેવાર m (tahevār)
• Hindi: ईद (hi) f (īd)
• Hungarian: bajrám
• Indonesian: Lebaran (id)
• Japanese: イード (ja) (īdo), イド (ja) (ido)
• Kazakh: айт (ait), мейрам (meiram)
• Korean: 이드 (ideu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: eyd (ku)

• Kyrgyz: айт (ky) (ayt), майрам (ky) (mayram)
• Marathi: ईद f (īd)
• Ottoman Turkish: بیرام (bayram), عید (ʿid)
• Pashto: عيد (ps) m ('id)
• Persian:

  Dari: عِید (fa) (īd)

  Iranian Persian: عِیْد (fa) (eyd), عید (fa) (id)

• Portuguese: ide (pt) m (Mozambique), eid m (unadapted form)
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਈਦ (pa) m or f (īd)

  Shahmukhi: عِید m or f (ʻīd)

• Russian: байра́м (ru) m (bajrám), ид (ru) m (id), эйд m (ejd), айт (ru) m (ajt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бајрам m

  Roman: bajram m

• Sindhi: عيد (īda)
• Slovene: bajram m
• Spanish: eid m
• Tajik: ид (tg) (id)
• Tamil: ஈகைத் திருநாள் (ta) (īkait tirunāḷ), ஈது (ta) (ītu)
• Tatar: бәйрәм (tt) (bäyräm)
• Telugu: ఈద్ (īd)
• Turkish: bayram (tr)
• Turkmen: baýram (tk)
• Urdu: عِید f ('īd)
• Uyghur: بايرام (bayram), ھېيت (ug) (hëyt)
• Uzbek: bayram (uz)

Etymology 2

From Norwegian Eid.

Proper noun

Eid

1. Any of several areas in Norway
   1. A parish of Stad, Nordfjord district, Sogn og Fjordane borough, Vestland, Vestlandet, Norway
   2. A parish of Kvinnherad, Sunnhordland district, Hordaland borough, Vestland, Vestlandet, Norway
   3. A parish of Rauma, Møre og Romsdal, Vestlandet, Norway

Derived terms

• Eid and Voll
• Voll and Eid

 

Related terms

• Eid og Voll
• Eidsbygda
• Voll og Eid

 

Etymology 3

From Scots Eid, from Old Norse Eið, from eið (“isthmus”).

Proper noun

Eid

1. Synonym of Aith; A village in Mainland, Shetland, Northern Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom

Anagrams

• -ide, DEI, EDI, IDE, IED, Ide, die, ide

East Central German

Etymology

From Middle High German egede, from Old High German egida. Compare early modern German eide.

Noun

Eid

1. (Erzgebirgisch) harrow

Related terms

• eggen

Further reading

• 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 37:

German

Etymology

From Middle High German eit, from Old High German eid, from Proto-West Germanic *aiþ, from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óytos. Compare Dutch eed, English oath, Danish ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɪ̯t/, [ʔäe̯t]
• Rhymes: -aɪ̯t

• Audio:

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Noun

Eid m (strong, genitive Eides or Eids, plural Eide)

1. (especially official, law, politics, military) oath

   Synonyms: (especially religious) Gelübde; (especially private) Schwur

Declension

Declension of Eid [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Eid	die	Eide
genitive	eines	des	Eides, Eids	der	Eide
dative	einem	dem	Eid, Eide1	den	Eiden
accusative	einen	den	Eid	die	Eide

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• Eidgenosse

See also

• Versprechen

Further reading

• “Eid” in Duden online
• “Eid” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Anagrams

• die

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Eid

1. Eid: A placename.
   1. A parish and former municipality of Stad, Nordfjord district, Sogn og Fjordane borough, Vestland, Vestlandet, Norway
   2. A parish and former municipality of Kvinnherad, Sunnhordland district, Hordaland borough, Vestland, Vestlandet, Norway
   3. A parish and former municipality of Rauma, Møre og Romsdal, Vestlandet, Norway

Derived terms

• Eid og Voll
• Voll og Eid

 

Related terms

• Eidsbygda

 

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From eid, from Old Norse eið (“isthmus”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɪː(d)/

Proper noun

Eid n

1. Eid, a placename.
   1. A parish and former municipality of Stad, Nordfjord district, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
   2. A parish and former municipality of Kvinnherad, Sunnhordland district, Hordaland, Norway
   3. A parish and former municipality of Rauma, Møre og Romsdal, Norway

Derived terms

• Eid og Voll
• Eidsbygda
• Voll og Eid

Plautdietsch

Noun

Eid m (plural Eide)

1. oath

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse Eið, from eið (“isthmus”).

Proper noun

Eid

1. Aith (a village in Mainland, Shetland, Northern Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom)

Descendants

• English: Eid