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Eid

//iːd// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Ellipsis of Eid al-Fitr. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
  2. 2
    Any of several areas in Norway; A parish of Stad, Nordfjord district, Sogn og Fjordane borough, Vestland, Western Norway, Norway.
  3. 3
    Synonym of Aith; A village in Mainland, Shetland, Northern Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom.
  4. 4
    Any of several areas in Norway; A parish of Kvinnherad, Sunnhordland district, Hordaland borough, Vestland, Western Norway, Norway.
  5. 5
    Any of several areas in Norway; A parish of Rauma, Møre og Romsdal, Western Norway, Norway.
Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various Muslim religious festivals.
  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of Eid. alt-of
  3. 3
    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. Scotland, UK, dialectal
  4. 4
    Abbreviation of emerging infectious disease or emergent infectious disease. abbreviation, alt-of
  5. 5
    Initialism of electronic identity document. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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  1. 6
    Alternative form of eID. alt-of, alternative
  2. 7
    Initialism of electronic identification. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  3. 8
    Initialism of electronic identifier. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. 9
    Initialism of electronic identity. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Arabic عِيد (ʕīd, “feast, holiday, festival”) via Persian عید ('eyd), ultimately from Classical Syriac ܥܐܕܐ.

Etymology 2

From Arabic عِيد (ʕīd, “feast, holiday, festival”) via Persian عید ('eyd), ultimately from Classical Syriac ܥܐܕܐ.

Etymology 3

From Norwegian Eid.

Etymology 4

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

Etymology 5

From Eid.

Etymology 6

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).

Etymology 7

From e- + ID.

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