ID AL-ADHA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Id al-Adha mean? 

• ID AL-ADHA (noun)
  The noun ID AL-ADHA has 1 sense:

1. the 10th day of Dhu'l-Hijja; all Muslims attend a service in the mosques and those who are not pilgrims perform a ritual slaughter of a sheep (commemorating God's ransom of Abraham's son from sacrifice) and give at least a third of the meat to charity

  Familiarity information: ID AL-ADHA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ID AL-ADHA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The 10th day of Dhu'l-Hijja; all Muslims attend a service in the mosques and those who are not pilgrims perform a ritual slaughter of a sheep (commemorating God's ransom of Abraham's son from sacrifice) and give at least a third of the meat to charity

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Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Feast of Sacrifice; Id al-Adha

Hypernyms ("Id al-Adha" is a kind of...):

feast day; fete day (a day designated for feasting)