Quick Summary of Turban Bayran
- 🌍 Origin & The Name Mystery: This variety is famous on Russian forums not just for its taste, but for its highly debated, mysterious name. “Turban Bayran” is widely believed to be a mangled translation.
- 🔍 The Etymology Detective Work: Forum members speculate that the original name might have been “Kurban Bayram” (the major Muslim holiday, Eid al-Adha). However, others consulted native speakers of Turkic languages and concluded that “Turban Bayram” loosely translates to “Festive Turban” (Праздничная Шапка), which perfectly describes the somewhat blocky, pleated shape of the tomato.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall) and generally easy to manage.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Red, dense, slightly blocky/cuboid beefsteaks.
- 👅 Flavor & Texture: Highly praised for being sugary, dense, and very sweet with absolutely no acidic bite.
- 📈 Yield: Rated as slightly below average, but growers keep bringing it back for its exceptional taste.
I really liked the taste of this little tomato. It’s dense, sugary (meaty), sweet, with no sourness/acidity at all. The shape is slightly cuboid/blocky. The yield was slightly below average. I will plant it again next year.
Turban Bayran
Obviously, yet another mangled/distorted name.
Kurban Bayram (Eid al-Adha) is a Muslim holiday.
Turban is a headdress + Bayram is a holiday ??? 😲
Drosera wrote:
Obviously, yet another mangled/distorted name. Kurban Bayram is a holiday. Turban is a headdress…
The variety is from Redko (a known seed vendor), what its real, true name is remains unknown.
It just so happened that I stumbled upon this name while looking through Tanika’s photos in my feed. Her seeds are from Alena (Ecotomat). Allow me to post my correspondence with Alena here.
Message from Alena (Ecotomat):
Natalya, hi!
Of course, I’ve read all these battles regarding the variety names, and I know about the Kurban Bayram holiday.)
The variety came to me with exactly this name from a customer of mine who deals with seeds on Odnoklassniki (Lyudmila Krivoguzova, Novosibirsk region). She also got it from somewhere on the internet. The variety has been circulating around the country for three years now.
I chatted with Muslims on VKontakte and with people who just live in Bashkiria and Tatarstan, and we agreed on the translation “Festive Hat” (Turban Bayram). Because naming a tomato after the Great Muslim Holiday—that would be equivalent to naming a tomato “Easter” (Pascha), which seems completely inappropriate.
Thanks, Alena
Alena, just for your information:
“Festive Hat” in Turkic languages:
bul tuurasında turmush tumak — Kyrgyz
papaq və bayram — Azerbaijani
merekelik bas kiim — Kazakh
käpäs bayram — Bashkir
bäyräm büreklege — Tatar
bayram xet — Uzbek
prazdnichnaya ḥaddi aqalli — Tajik
“Festive Turban” in Turkic languages:
bayram sallasi — Uzbek
merekelik tyurban — Kazakh
oshto tyurban — Kyrgyz
şenlikli türban — Turkish
bäyrämçä — Tatar
bayram hicab — Azerbaijani
bayram sällä — Bashkir
Still, I am inclined to think that the variety was originally named Kurban Bayram (Eid al-Adha). After all, the name “Easter Egg” (Paschalnoye Yaitso) doesn’t bother us when it comes to tomatoes.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find translations into Karakalpak, Uyghur, Chuvash, Balkar, Karachay, Kumyk, Nogai, Tuvan, Khakas, or Yakut…
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