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Eid¹

  • /iːd/

Sounds like Eade · Rhymes with -iːd

Where it comes from

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

noun Eids · 'Eid · 'eid · Id · Eed

  1. Any of various Muslim religious festivals.

proper noun Eids · 'Eid · 'eid · Id · Eed

  1. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of Eid al-Fitr.Eid al-Fitr

Eid²

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Norwegian Bokmål Eid.

proper noun

  1. A parish of Stad, Nordfjord district, Sogn og Fjordane borough, Vestland, Western Norway.
  2. A parish of Kvinnherad, Sunnhordland district, Hordaland borough, Vestland, Western Norway.
  3. A parish of Rauma, Møre og Romsdal, Western Norway.

Eid³

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Scots Eid, borrowed from Old Norse Eið.

proper noun

  1. Synonym of Aith: a village in Mainland, Shetland, Northern Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom.

eid⁴

Where it comes from

From Eid.

noun eids

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Eid.Eid

eid⁵

Where it comes from

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).

noun eids · ed · aith

  1. Scotland, UK, dialectal 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.

EID⁶

noun EIDs

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of emerging infectious disease or emergent infectious disease.emerging infectious disease or emergent infectious disease
  2. alternative Alternative form of eID.eID

eID⁷

Where it comes from

From e- + ID.

noun eIDs · EID · E-ID · e-ID · eid · e-id

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of electronic identity document.electronic identity document
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of electronic identification.electronic identification
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of electronic identifier.electronic identifier
  4. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of electronic identity.electronic identity

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