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The Arabic names of the months of the Gregorian calendar are usually phonetic Arabic pronunciations of the corresponding month names used in European languages. An exception is the Assyrian calendar used in Iraq and the Levant, whose month names are inherited via Classical Arabic from the Babylonian and Hebrew lunisolar calendars and correspond to roughly the same time of year.
Arabic month names are the Arabic-language names for months in a number of different calendars. Arabic names of Gregorian months; Months of the Islamic calendar;
Islamic calendar stamp issued at King Khalid International Airport on 10 Rajab 1428 AH (24 July 2007 CE). The Hijri calendar (Arabic: ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, romanized: al-taqwīm al-hijrī), or Arabic calendar, also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.
The word "Rabi" means "spring" and Al-thani means "the second" in the Arabic language, so "Rabi' al-Thani" means "the second spring" in Arabic. As the Islamic calendar is a purely lunar calendar, the month naturally rotates over solar years, so Rabīʽ al-Thani can fall in spring or any other season. Therefore, the month cannot be related to ...
'The first Jumada'), or Jumada I, is the fifth month of the Islamic calendar. Jumada al-Awwal spans 29 or 30 days. The origin of the month's name is theorized by some as coming from the word jamād (Arabic: جماد), meaning "arid, dry, or cold", [1] denoting the dry and parched land and hence the dry months of the pre-Islamic Arabian calendar.
The month names in Turkish are derived from three languages: either from Latin, Levantine Arabic (which itself took its names from Aramaic), or from a native Turkish word. The Arabic-Aramaic month names themselves originate in the ancient Babylonian calendar , and are therefore cognate with the names of months in the Hebrew calendar ...
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Month Usual Gregorian dates (when Naw-Rúz coincides with 21 March) [19] Arabic name [19] Arabic script English name [19] Additional meanings in authorized English translations of Baháʼí scripture [5] 1: 21 March – 8 April: Bahá: بهاء: Splendour: glory, light, excellence 2: 9 April – 27 April: Jalál: جلال: Glory: majesty 3: 28 ...