# بیرام
## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *badram.

### Noun

بَیْرَامْ (bayram)
* festival, holyday, celebration

#### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: bayram
* Gagauz: bayram
* Ottoman Turkish: بیرام (bayram), بایرام (bayram)
** Turkish: bayram
** → Albanian: Bajram, Barjam
** → Armenian: պարյամ (paryam), բայրամ (bayram)
** → Bulgarian: байра́м (bajrám)
** → Greek: μπαϊράμι (baïrámi)
** → French: baïram
** → Hungarian: bajrám
** → Laz: ბაჲრამი (bayrami), ბაჲამი (bayami) — Lome, ბაირამი (bairami)
** → Romanian: bairam
** → Russian: байра́м (bajrám)
** → Serbo-Croatian: Bàjram / Ба̀јрам, Bàrjam / Ба̀рјам

### References

* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bayrak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

### Further reading

* “bayram”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977, page 455
* Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) “bayram”, in A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 77, 456, 457
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bayram”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 508

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* بایرام (bayram)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *badram (“feast”); cognate with Azerbaijani bayram, Bashkir байрам (bayram), Kazakh мейрам (meiram), Kyrgyz майрам (mayram), Turkmen baýram, Uyghur بايرام (bayram) and Uzbek bayram.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bajˈɾam/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

بیرام • (bayram)
* holy day, feast day, Eid, any of various religious festivals
    Synonym: عید (ʿid)

#### Derived terms

* بیراملق (bayramlık, “anything pertaining to a festival”)
* خامورسز بیرامی (hamursuz bayramı, “Passover”)
* خمسین بیرامی (hamsin bayramı, “Pentecost”)
* رمضان بیرامی (ramazan bayramı, “Eid al-Fitr”)
* شكر بیرامی (şeker bayramı, “Eid al-Fitr”)
* قامش بیرامی (kamış bayramı, “Sukkot”)
* قربان بیرامی (kurban bayramı, “Eid al-Adha”)
* قندیل بیرامی (kandil bayramı, “festival of the lamps”)
* چوراب بیرامی (çorab bayramı, “Jewish feast of the return to Zion”)
* گل بیرامی (gül bayramı, “Shavuot”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: bayram
* → Albanian: Bajram, Barjam
* → Armenian: պարյամ (paryam), բայրամ (bayram)
* → Bulgarian: байра́м (bajrám)
* → Greek: μπαϊράμι (baïrámi)
* → French: baïram
* → Hungarian: bajrám
* → Laz: ბაჲრამი (bayrami), ბაჲამი (bayami) — Lome, ბაირამი (bairami)
* → Romanian: bairam
* → Russian: байра́м (bajrám)
* → Serbo-Croatian: Bàjram / Ба̀јрам, Bàrjam / Ба̀рјам

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bayram”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 513
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بیرام”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 138b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیرام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, pages 250–251
* Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 183, page 16b
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Festum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 569
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بیرام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 982
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bayram”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیرام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 419
* Sevortjan, E. V. (1978) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Nauka, pages 35–36