Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
Ellipsis of Eid al-Fitr.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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name
Numerous places in Norway:
A parish of Stad, Nordfjord district, Sogn og Fjordane borough, Vestland, Western Norway.
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name
Numerous places in Norway:
A parish of Kvinnherad, Sunnhordland district, Hordaland borough, Vestland, Western Norway.
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name
Numerous places in Norway:
A parish of Rauma, Møre og Romsdal, Western Norway.
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name
Synonym of Aith: a village in Mainland, Shetland, Northern Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any of various Muslim religious festivals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Islam, lifestyle, religion
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of Eid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, dialectal
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noun
Abbreviation of emerging infectious disease or emergent infectious disease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
Topics: epidemiology, medicine, sciences
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noun
Alternative form of eID.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Initialism of electronic identity document.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Initialism of electronic identification.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Initialism of electronic identifier.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Initialism of electronic identity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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History
Borrowed from Arabic عِيد (ʕīd, “feast, holiday, festival”) via Iranian Persian عید ('eyd), ultimately from Classical Syriac ܥܐܕܐ.
Borrowed from Norwegian Bokmål Eid.
Borrowed from Scots Eid, borrowed from Old Norse Eið.
From Eid.
From Old Norse eið (“an isthmus, neck of land”), from Proto-Germanic *aidiją (“isthmus, strait”), of uncertain origin, but probably from Proto-Indo-European *h1ey- (“to go”). Cognate with Icelandic eið, eiði, Faroese eið, eiði (“isthmus”), Norwegian eid (“isthmus”), Swedish ed. Compare Latin eō (“go, proceed”, verb).
From e- + ID.
Across languages
61 source translations are retained for this English entry.
