What is "bayat"

n. an oath of allegiance to an emir

The surname Bayat or Baiyat is derived from clans in Turkey, Iran and Azerbaijan.

Bayat may refer to:

• Bay'at, Islamic word for allegiance

People

• Bayat (name), originally referring to a Turkic clan from Iran, now a common surname in the Middle East and South-Central Asia

''(Includes a list of people with this name) Bayads, Mongolian ethnic group Places

• Bayat, Afyonkarahisar, a district in Turkey's Afyonkarahisar Province founded by members of the clan
• Bayat, Çorum, a district in Turkey's Çorum Province founded by members of the clan
• Boyat, Aghjabadi, Azerbaijan
• Boyat, Neftchala, Azerbaijan
• Boyat, Shamakhi, Azerbaijan
• Boyat, Ujar, Azerbaijan
• Bayat, Indonesia, a subdistrict in Klaten Regency, Central Java, Indonesia
• Bayat, East Azerbaijan, Iran
• Bayat-e Sofla East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
• Bayat, Razavi Khorasan, Iran
• Bayat, West Azerbaijan, Iran
• Bayat Rural District, in Markazi Province, Iran

In folklore

• Bayati, one of the oldest forms of Azerbaijani folk poetry.

In music

• Bayat, Bayati or Bayat-e-Turk, and Bayati-i-Kurd, makams (musical mode) in Turkish and Iranian music
• Maqam Bayat

The '''Bayat ''' tribe is one of the Oghuz tribes in Turkmenistan, Iran, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iraq, and Syria. When Oghuz Turks started to migrate from the Aral steppes to Khorasan in the 11th and 13th centuries, Bayat people spread throughout the region. They are sub-ethnic groups of Turkmens, Turkish and Azerbaijanis. Bayats are Muslim and speak a southern dialect of Azerbaijani language in Azerbaijan and Iran, or their own dialect of Turkish in Turkey.