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MOHAMMEDAN CALENDAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mohammedan calendar mean? 

MOHAMMEDAN CALENDAR (noun)
  The noun MOHAMMEDAN CALENDAR has 1 sense:

1. 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 yearsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


MOHAMMEDAN CALENDAR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Islamic calendar; Mohammedan calendar; Moslem calendar; Muhammadan calendar; Muslim calendar

Hypernyms ("Mohammedan calendar" is a kind of...):

lunar calendar (a calendar based on lunar cycles)

Meronyms (parts of "Mohammedan calendar"):

Islamic calendar month (any lunar month in the Muslim calendar)

Moharram; Muharram; Muharrum (the first month of the Islamic calendar)

Safar; Saphar (the second month of the Islamic calendar)

Rabi I (the third month of the Islamic calendar)

Rabi II (the fourth month of the Islamic calendar)

Jomada I; Jumada I (the fifth month of the Islamic calendar)

Jomada II; Jumada II (the sixth month of the Islamic calendar)

Rajab (the seventh month of the Islamic calendar)

Sha'ban; Shaaban (the eighth month of the Islamic calendar)

Ramadan (the ninth month of the Islamic calendar; the month of fasting; the holiest period for the Islamic faith)

Shawwal (the tenth month of the Islamic calendar)

Dhu'l-Qa'dah; Dhu al-Qadah (the eleventh month of the Islamic calendar)

Dhu'l-Hijja; Dhu'l-Hijjah; Dhu al-Hijja; Dhu al-Hijjah (the twelfth month of the Islamic calendar and the season of the hajj; has one extra day in leap years)


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