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Id al-Fitr

Id al-Fitr

5.4
A Muslim festival at the end of Ramadan when people pray and eat special food
  • noun
  • /ɪd æl ˈfɪtər/
translation icon : Id al-Fitr
  • The joy of Id al-Fitr was evident as children received new clothes and sweets.

Examples

  • One exception was the intense violence of 26 April, the first day of Id al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan, when thousands of Palestinians stormed the Israeli Defense Forces compound at Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Families gather to share meals and give gifts during the celebration of Id al-Fitr.

  • On Id al-Fitr, many Muslims attend special prayers at their local mosque.

Synonyms

Eid
vsId al-Fitr
6 4.2

A major Muslim festival celebrated with prayers and feasts

is the festival specifically marking Ramadan's end with communal prayers and feasting

Surface Forms

Id al-Fitr singular

Morphology

Id + al-Fitr

Id al-Fitr is a borrowed Arabic proper name referring to a specific cultural festival; its constituents are not English words (the input shows them as not found in the dictionary), and understanding the full meaning requires cultural knowledge of Ramadan and the notion of 'breaking the fast' rather than simple compositional inference. Even if a learner knew the literal Arabic morphemes, this is a named festival whose significance is culturally specific, so a B1 learner who only knows the constituent words in English would not reliably derive the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Id al-Fitr comes from Arabic and literally means 'festival of breaking the fast', with Id meaning 'festival' and al-Fitr meaning 'breaking the fast'. So the name explains the prayers and big meals that mark the 'end of Ramadan'.