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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Eid-al-Fitr (1 Shuwwal) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:06:46 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: <vsdpfv$f2e$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:06:56 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6d7196e71d7e487571e848d4ccc50420"; logging-data="15438"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/lZknDwm3gw+mOVOCRaRapI2pIJgXoyWo=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:zCzMHRPyf8I89VuhjTyRSBhMlMM= X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 2005 We end the month, as Muslims end Ramadan, (and begin the month of Shawwal), with Eid-al-Fitr (Arabic: عيد الفطر, romanized: ʿĪd al-Fiṭr, lit. 'Festival of Breaking the Fast'). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Fitr Some countries just celebrate it on 31 March; others start from 29 or 30 March and run to 1 April. It's a big festival. Sometimes called just Eid for short, it has different names in some countries: Small Sallah (Nigeria) Eid es-Seghir (Morocco) Korité (Senegal) Idid Ramazon (Tajikistan) Ramazon Hayit (or) Ro'za hayiti (Uzbekistan) Orozo Ait (Kyrgyzstan), Oraza Ait (Kazakhstan) Hari Raya [holiday] Idul Fitri (or) Lebaran (Indonesia) Hari Raya Puasa [fasting holiday] (Malaysia and Singapore) Hariraya Buka Puasa (Philippines) Ramazan Bayramı [Ramadan holiay] (or) Şeker Bayramı [sugar holiday] (Turkey) and cognate terms in the Balkans Uraza Bajram (Ураза-байрам) (Russia)