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n. - An oath of allegiance to an emir.

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Usage examples (35)
  • According to the family of my husband, Saadoun, bayat translates as “the people who camped overnight.”
  • A bayat is the oath of allegiance that an al Qaeda member gives to Osama bin Laden.
  • To get a good ID of some of her targets, she bullies them into filling out an oath of allegiance known as a bayat .
  • They came only thirteen months after he had sworn bayat.
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