HINDU CALENDAR MONTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hindu calendar month mean? 

• HINDU CALENDAR MONTH (noun)
  The noun HINDU CALENDAR MONTH has 1 sense:

1. any lunisolar month in the Hindu calendar

  Familiarity information: HINDU CALENDAR MONTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HINDU CALENDAR MONTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any lunisolar month in the Hindu calendar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("Hindu calendar month" is a kind of...):

calendar month; month (one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Hindu calendar month"):

Caitra; Chait (the first Hindu calendar month (corresponding to March in the Gregorian calendar))

Baisakh; Vaisakha (the second month of the Hindu calendar)

Jeth; Jyaistha (the third month of the Hindu calendar)

Asadha; Asarh (the fourth month of the Hindu calendar)

Sawan; Sravana (the fifth month of the Hindu calendar)

Bhadon; Bhadrapada (the sixth month of the Hindu calendar)

Asin; Asvina (the seventh month of the Hindu calendar)

Kartik; Karttika (the eighth month of the Hindu calendar)

Aghan; Margasivsa (the ninth month of the Hindu calendar)

Pansa; Pus (the tenth month of the Hindu calendar)

Magh; Magha (the eleventh month of the Hindu calendar; corresponds to January in the Gregorian calendar)

Phagun; Phalguna (the twelfth month of the Hindu calendar)

Holonyms ("Hindu calendar month" is a part of...):

Hindu calendar (the lunisolar calendar governing the religious life of Hindus; an extra month is inserted after every month in which there are two new moons (once every three years))