Talk: Eid ul-Fitr
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Spelling
Granting that we're talking about translating cross-alphabetically, but can we get some agreement on the "proper" spelling of this festival? Where exactly do the accent marks (') if any go? How many hyphens are there? --Dante Alighieri 23:15 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC)
OK, I mean: is it Eid ul-Fitr or 'Eid-ul-Fitr?
Since no one is answering, I'm changing the second instance to match the first. --Dante Alighieri 00:29 Dec 6, 2002 (UTC)
the question is not that simple to answer: there are two forms in arabic, one declinated (eid ul-fitr) - the u signifying the nominativ - and one in pausa, case independent (eid al-fitr), the other problem is that an ayn is missing at the beginning of eid. Usually this is transcribed by a small superscript c. Does anybody know a Unicode-entity for this? --elian
Alms
The article gives a pretty exact USD quote for the Zakat al Fitr, but in which country, and what year? --Shallot 20:42, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Now it talks about "basic foodstuffs", but the list is rather Arab-centric. How is it done elsewhere? --Joy [shallot] 09:38, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Title
Upon some further investigation, I don't see much reason not to rename this page into an English title -- for example Feast of Ramadan, a term known to Google at least. I don't know to what extent the Arabic word is more Islamic than others — we've already got recorded various Turkish/Albanian/Bosnian, Indonesian and Singaporean variants. --Joy [shallot] 20:31, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Pronunciation
How do you Prononciate :) this? TomCerul 22:33, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
