mohammedan calendar

  • 1Mohammedan calendar — Mo*ham med*an cal en*dar A lunar calendar reckoning from the year of the hegira (hejira), 622 a. d. Thirty of its years constitute a cycle, of which the 2d, 5th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 21st, 24th, 26th, and 29th are leap years, having 355… …

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  • 2Mohammedan 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: ↑Islamic calendar, ↑Muhammadan calendar, ↑Moslem… …

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  • 3Mohammedan year — prop. n. The year used by Mohammedans, consisting of twelve lunar months without intercalation, so that they retrograde through all the seasons in about 321/2 years. The Mohammedan era begins with the year 622 a. d., the first day of the… …

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  • 4Islamic 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,… …

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  • 5Muslim 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: ↑Islamic calendar, ↑Muhammadan calendar,… …

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  • 6Muhammadan 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: ↑Islamic calendar, ↑Mohammedan calendar, ↑Moslem… …

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  • 7lunar calendar — noun a calendar based on lunar cycles • Hypernyms: ↑calendar • Hyponyms: ↑Roman calendar, ↑Islamic calendar, ↑Muhammadan calendar, ↑Mohammedan calendar, ↑Moslem calendar, ↑Muslim calendar …

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  • 8Islamic calendar month — noun any lunar month in the Muslim calendar • Hypernyms: ↑calendar month, ↑month • Hyponyms: ↑Muharram, ↑Moharram, ↑Muharrum, ↑Safar, ↑Saphar, ↑Ra …

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  • 9Moslem 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: ↑Islamic calendar, ↑Muhammadan calendar,… …

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  • 10Rabi I — noun the third month of the Islamic calendar • Hypernyms: ↑Islamic calendar month • Part Holonyms: ↑Islamic calendar, ↑Muhammadan calendar, ↑Mohammedan calendar, ↑Moslem calendar, ↑Muslim calendar * * * …

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