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FEAST OF SACRIFICE
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I. (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
Synonyms:
Feast of Sacrifice; Id al-Adha
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Feast of Sacrifice" is a kind of...):
feast day; fete day (a day designated for feasting)
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