id al-adha

Noun

• 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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Id al-Adha , Feast of Sacrifice