{"id":993,"date":"2026-08-27T13:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=993"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:04:15","slug":"turban-bayran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/turban-bayran\/","title":{"rendered":"Turban Bayran Tomato: History, Name Origins &#038; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-auto kksr-align-left kksr-valign-top\"\n    data-payload='{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;993&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;valign&quot;:&quot;top&quot;,&quot;ignore&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;reference&quot;:&quot;auto&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;count&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;legendonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;readonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;score&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;starsonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;best&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;gap&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;greet&quot;:&quot;Rate this&quot;,&quot;legend&quot;:&quot;0\\\/5 - (0 votes)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Turban Bayran Tomato: History, Name Origins \\u0026amp; Review&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;_legend&quot;:&quot;{score}\\\/{best} - ({count} {votes})&quot;,&quot;font_factor&quot;:&quot;1.25&quot;}'>\n            \n<div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"2\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"3\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"4\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"5\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-active\" style=\"width: 0px;\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n                \n\n<div class=\"kksr-legend\" style=\"font-size: 19.2px;\">\n            <span class=\"kksr-muted\">Rate this<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<h2>Quick Summary of Turban Bayran<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\ud83c\udf0d <strong>Origin &amp; The Name Mystery:<\/strong> This variety is famous on Russian forums not just for its taste, but for its highly debated, mysterious name. <em>&#8220;Turban Bayran&#8221;<\/em> is widely believed to be a mangled translation.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udd0d <strong>The Etymology Detective Work:<\/strong> Forum members speculate that the original name might have been &#8220;Kurban Bayram&#8221; (the major Muslim holiday, Eid al-Adha). However, others consulted native speakers of Turkic languages and concluded that &#8220;Turban Bayram&#8221; loosely translates to <em>&#8220;Festive Turban&#8221;<\/em> (\u041f\u0440\u0430\u0437\u0434\u043d\u0438\u0447\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0428\u0430\u043f\u043a\u0430), which perfectly describes the somewhat blocky, pleated shape of the tomato.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udf3f <strong>Plant Habit:<\/strong> Indeterminate (tall) and generally easy to manage.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udf45 <strong>Fruit Characteristics:<\/strong> Red, dense, slightly blocky\/cuboid beefsteaks.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udc45 <strong>Flavor &amp; Texture:<\/strong> Highly praised for being sugary, dense, and very sweet with absolutely no acidic bite.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udcc8 <strong>Yield:<\/strong> Rated as slightly below average, but growers keep bringing it back for its exceptional taste.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"add-review-cta\" style=\"margin: 20px 0; padding: 15px; background: #f9f9f9; border-left: 4px solid #4CAF50; border-radius: 4px;\"><strong>\ud83c\udf45 Grown this variety?<\/strong> <a href=\"#wpdcom\">Click here to add your own photos and review below!<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">\u042f<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">Yanina (Olga) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (3,121 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Uva, Udmurtia, Russia (USDA Zone 3-4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>I really liked the taste of this little tomato. It&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"forum-gallery\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments\/50990_76423f1d9b8bb0716d779f03f644303c8eca9304.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments\/50990_76423f1d9b8bb0716d779f03f644303c8eca9304.jpg\" alt=\"Turban Bayran dense red tomato on scale\" width=\"990\" height=\"691\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments\/50992_6194db9bc4fdfff938583b1a127c7be610ccd4fb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments\/50992_6194db9bc4fdfff938583b1a127c7be610ccd4fb.jpg\" alt=\"Cross section of Turban Bayran showing sugary flesh\" width=\"1015\" height=\"691\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">D<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">Drosera (Svetlana) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (5,413 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Yekaterinburg, Russia (USDA Zone 3-4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><strong>Turban Bayran<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, yet another mangled\/distorted name.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kurban Bayram<\/em> (Eid al-Adha) is a Muslim holiday.<br \/>\n<em>Turban<\/em> is a headdress + <em>Bayram<\/em> is a holiday ??? \ud83d\ude32<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">\u042f<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">Yanina (Olga) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (3,121 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Uva, Udmurtia, Russia (USDA Zone 3-4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<blockquote><p><strong>Drosera wrote:<\/strong><br \/>\nObviously, yet another mangled\/distorted name. Kurban Bayram is a holiday. Turban is a headdress&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The variety is from Redko (a known seed vendor), what its real, true name is remains unknown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">\u0411<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">Borisovna (Natalya) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (19,778 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Karaganda, Kazakhstan (USDA Zone 3-4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>It just so happened that I stumbled upon this name while looking through Tanika&#8217;s photos in my feed. Her seeds are from Alena (Ecotomat). Allow me to post my correspondence with Alena here.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 15px 0; padding: 15px; border-left: 4px solid #ccc; background: #f4f4f4;\">\n<p><strong>Message from Alena (Ecotomat):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Natalya, hi!<br \/>\nOf course, I\u2019ve read all these battles regarding the variety names, and I know about the Kurban Bayram holiday.)<br \/>\nThe 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.<\/p>\n<p>I chatted with Muslims on VKontakte and with people who just live in Bashkiria and Tatarstan, and we agreed on the translation <strong>&#8220;Festive Hat&#8221; (Turban Bayram)<\/strong>. Because naming a tomato after the Great Muslim Holiday\u2014that would be equivalent to naming a tomato &#8220;Easter&#8221; (Pascha), which seems completely inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Alena<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alena, just for your information:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Festive Hat&#8221; in Turkic languages:<\/strong><br \/>\nbul tuuras\u0131nda turmush tumak \u2014 Kyrgyz<br \/>\npapaq v\u0259 bayram \u2014 Azerbaijani<br \/>\nmerekelik bas kiim \u2014 Kazakh<br \/>\nk\u00e4p\u00e4s bayram \u2014 Bashkir<br \/>\nb\u00e4yr\u00e4m b\u00fcreklege \u2014 Tatar<br \/>\nbayram xet \u2014 Uzbek<br \/>\nprazdnichnaya \u1e25addi aqalli \u2014 Tajik<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Festive Turban&#8221; in Turkic languages:<\/strong><br \/>\nbayram sallasi \u2014 Uzbek<br \/>\nmerekelik tyurban \u2014 Kazakh<br \/>\noshto tyurban \u2014 Kyrgyz<br \/>\n\u015fenlikli t\u00fcrban \u2014 Turkish<br \/>\nb\u00e4yr\u00e4m\u00e7\u00e4 \u2014 Tatar<br \/>\nbayram hicab \u2014 Azerbaijani<br \/>\nbayram s\u00e4ll\u00e4 \u2014 Bashkir<\/p>\n<p>Still, I am inclined to think that the variety was originally named <em>Kurban Bayram<\/em> (Eid al-Adha). After all, the name &#8220;Easter Egg&#8221; (Paschalnoye Yaitso) doesn&#8217;t bother us when it comes to tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I couldn&#8217;t find translations into Karakalpak, Uyghur, Chuvash, Balkar, Karachay, Kumyk, Nogai, Tuvan, Khakas, or Yakut&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Summary of Turban Bayran \ud83c\udf0d Origin &amp; The Name Mystery: This variety is famous on Russian forums not just for its taste, but for its highly debated, mysterious name. &#8220;Turban Bayran&#8221; is widely believed to be a mangled translation. \ud83d\udd0d The Etymology Detective Work: Forum members speculate that the original name might have been &#8230; <a title=\"Turban Bayran Tomato: History, Name Origins &#038; Review\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/turban-bayran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Turban Bayran Tomato: History, Name Origins &#038; Review\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,438,5],"tags":[72,33,82,49,15],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beefsteak-large-slicers","category-red-tomatoes","category-russian-eastern-european-heirlooms","tag-greenhouse-tomato","tag-indeterminate","tag-meaty-tomato","tag-open-ground","tag-sweet-flavor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}