Forms: 6 beyram, 7 bairan, 8 bajram, bayram, 6– bairam. [Turk. baïrām, beïram, Pers. bairām.] The name of two Mohammedan festivals—the Lesser Bairam, lasting three days, which follows the fast of Ramadan, and the Greater Bairam, seventy days later, lasting four days.
1599. Hakluyt, Voy., II. I. 196. The Turkes Beyram … one of their chiefest feastes.
1687. Lond. Gaz., No. 2291/2. Their Lesser Bairam … falls out about the middle of October.
1813. Byron, Giaour, viii. To-night the Bairam feast’s begun.
