İyi Ramazanlar! Sundown tonight will be the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, so if you’re observing the fast then Ramazan mübarek olsun, and if you’re just interested in reading more then please enjoy my past writing on the topic.
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Ramazan 1436
Sundown tonight will be the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan for some people around the world (moon observations make it hard to pinpoint these things exactly), so if you’re interested please enjoy my past writing on the topic.
There’s much more about the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which begins this evening for most Muslims around the world, over on the Arabic blog, if you’re so inclined.
My purpose here is only to give you some Turkish greetings you can offer for the month. If you’ve read that Arabic entry then this will be pretty simple, because we’re just using the same Arabic greetings, albeit with the Persian pronunciation “Ramazan” rather than the Arabic “Ramadan.” These are Ramazan mübarek (you could go with Mübarek Ramazan, also), “Blessed Ramadan!” and Ramazan kerim, “Generous Ramadan!” A more authentically Turkish greeting would be the title of this post: İyi Ramazanlar, “Good Ramadan!”
Kadir Gecesi 1435
Tonight is Kadir Gecesi (“the Night of Power”), the night when tradition says that the first Qurʾānic revelation was given to Muhammad. If you are interested, I hope you will enjoy my post on this subject from last year.
Ramazan 1435
Sundown today marks the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan or Ramazan. Rather than repeat myself for no particular reason, I will wish Ramazan mübarek to those who are fasting and point anyone who’s interested to last year’s post on the subject.
The Night of Power
At some point during the final ten nights of Ramadan, Muslims observe the Night of Power (laylat al-qadr in Arabic), the night when Muhammad is said to have received the first Qur’anic revelation in the year 610. To read much more about the night and that first revelation, check out my Arabic blog. I’m not going to repeat all that here; this entry is just to note the Turkish name for the Night: kadir gecesi. “Night,” which is laylah in Arabic, is gece in Turkish.
İyi Ramazanlar!
There’s much more about the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which begins this evening for most Muslims around the world, over on the Arabic blog, if you’re so inclined.
My purpose here is only to give you some Turkish greetings you can offer for the month. If you’ve read that Arabic entry then this will be pretty simple, because we’re just using the same Arabic greetings, albeit with the Persian pronunciation “Ramazan” rather than the Arabic “Ramadan.” These are Ramazan mübarek (you could go with Mübarek Ramazan, also, and Ramazan mübarek olsun), “Blessed Ramadan!” or “May (your) Ramadan be blessed,” and Ramazan kerim, “Generous Ramadan!” A more authentically Turkish greeting would be the title of this post, İyi Ramazanlar, (“Good Ramadan!”) or Hayırlı Ramazanlar (“Auspicious Ramadan”). You may also hear or see Hoşgeldin Ya Şehr-i Ramazan or Hoşgeldin Ramazan, which means “Welcome Ramadan!”
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