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یلدا

Loanword (with accompanying change of meaning) from Persian Christian technical term for Christmas, in the early church celebrated on the winter solstice, from Syriac Christian technical term for Christmas, Classical Syriac ܝܠܕܐ (yaldā, “birth, nativity”), i.e. of Christ.

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c. 250 CESyriac

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