Islamic calendar — noun the lunar calendar used by Muslims; dates from 622 AD (the year of the Hegira); the beginning of the Muslim year retrogresses through the solar year completing the cycle every 32 years • Syn: ↑Muhammadan calendar, ↑Mohammedan calendar,… … Useful english dictionary
calendar month — noun one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year he paid the bill last month • Syn: ↑month • Derivationally related forms: ↑monthly (for: ↑month) • Hypernyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Islamic calendar — Arabic calendar redirects here. For the Gregorian calendar in Arabic, see Arabic names of calendar months. This … Wikipedia
Ramadan (calendar month) — Ramadan or Ramadhan or Ramazan (Arabic: ar. رمضان) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar.The word Ramadan is derived from the word ramd to burn . Fasting in the month of Ramadan is one of the five pillars of Islam. The month is spent by… … Wikipedia
Islamic calendar — noun Date: 1974 a lunar calendar reckoned from the Hegira in A.D. 622 and organized in cycles of 30 years see month table … New Collegiate Dictionary
Tabular Islamic calendar — The Tabular Islamic Calendar (also called the Fatimid Calendar) is a rule based variation of the Islamic calendar. It has the same year numbers and months, but the months are determined by arithmetic rules rather than by observation or… … Wikipedia
Month — For the Egyptian hawk god, see Monthu. A month is a unit of time, used with calendars, which was first used and invented in Mesopotamia, as a natural period related to the motion of the Moon; month and Moon are cognates. The traditional concept… … Wikipedia
Calendar — For other uses, see Calendar (disambiguation). For the Gregorian calendar for this year, see Common year starting on Saturday. A page from the Hindu calendar 1871–1872. A calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial,… … Wikipedia
Islamic New Year — Part of a series on Islamic culture Architecture … Wikipedia
calendar — calendrical /keuh len dri keuhl/, calendric, calendarial /kal euhn dair ee euhl/, calendarian, calendaric, adj. /kal euhn deuhr/, n. 1. a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar. 2. any … Universalium
