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English noun: Feast of Sacrifice | |||
| 1. | Feast of Sacrifice (time) 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 | ||
| Synonyms | Id al-Adha | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | feast day, fete day | ||
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