Where does “Ramadan” come from?
Ramadan comes from Arabic رَمَضَان, derived from the Arabic verb اِرْتَمَضَ, which originally referred to the intense heat of the sun.
Ancestry of “Ramadan”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Arabic | رَمَضَان | Ramadan |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | بیرام | holy feast, holy day, festival |
| 3 | Common Turkic | badram | — |
| 4 | Iranian | word | — |