Words tagged under "Festivals"

the tenth day or the first ten days of the month Muharram

Hindu festival celebrated every six years near the confluence of the Ganges and Jamuna

a variant name of Eid-ul-Adha, festival observed on the tenth of Zilhaj (ذوالحج)

a Hindu festival celebrated in the month of Katik in which oxen are decorated

feast held in commemoration of Abraham's offering to sacrifice his son Ismail

a festival celebrated by Hindus on the second lunar day of Shukla Paksha

Christmas

christmas-day

(Hindu) happiness, row of lamps, cleaning

a festival celebrated by the Imāmīyah sect on the 18th of the twelfth month of Hijri calendar

bent-grass, panic grass, Panicum dactylon

the festival of Holi, the great spring festival of the Hindus, held at the approach of the vernal equinox, and people sprinkle one each other with red or yellow powder (abeer, or gulal)

either of the two Muslim annual festivals

a festival celebrated by the Imāmīyah sect on the 18th of the twelfth month of Hijri calendar

annual festival of Prophet Muhammad's birth

annual festival of Prophet Muhammad's birth

an aborted attempt to resolve a theological dispute between Muslims and Christians circa 632 CE by invoking the curse of God upon the liars, between a Christian delegation from Najran and Muhammad was accompanied to the mubahala by his daughter Fatima, her husband Ali, and their two sons, Hasan and Husain, the peace treaty was finally reached by which the Christians agreed to pay an annual poll-tax (jizya)

Eid-ul-Adha, festival observed on the tenth of Zilhaj (ذوالحج), the day after Hajj, Muslim festival commemorating Prophet Abraham's sacrifice of his son

Eid-ul-Fitr, festival marking the end of Ramazan, observed on first of Shawwal (شوّال), Eid Festival in which fitra(alms) are distributed to poor, the Mohammadan Easter

Hindu festival of Krishna's birthday

festival of lights, Diwali

(Punjab) mid-winter Hindu festival in which bonfires are made, bonfire festival

(Punjab) mid winter Hindu festival in which bonfires are made, bone-fire festival

birthday, birth, nativity

name of a Hindu festival, the fifth day in the light half of the month Sravan (on which day they worship a snake to procure blessings on their children)

New year's day (according to the Persian calendar, being that on which the sun enters Aries, this is called 'aamma' or 'general', and the sixth of the same month, 'Khaassa' or 'special,' or buzurg, 'great', both of these days are celebrated by feasts

a Hindu festival to celebrate and cement brotherly relationship

a Hindu festival to celebrate and cement brotherly relationship

The eve of the 14th day of the month Shaban (on which a vigil is observed with prayers, feastings, illuminations and the Musalmans make offerings and oblations in the names (if not to the manes) of deceased ancestors, on this night the lives and fortunes of mortals during the coming year are said to be registered in heaven)

the the day of sacrifice, being the tenth of the month

the day of sacrifice being the 10th of Zil-Hijja