Nisan – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Nisan
Nisan (or
Nissan; ,
Standard Nisan Tiberian Nîsan) on the
Assyrian calendar is the first month and on the
Hebrew calendar is the first month of the ecclesiastical year and the seventh month (eighth, in leap year) of the civil year. The name of the month is Babylonian; in the
Torah it is called the month of the
Aviv. Assyrians refer to the month as the "month of happiness." It is a spring month of 30 days. (Nisan usually falls in March–April) on the
Gregorian calendar. In the
Book of Esther in the
Tanakh it is referred to as Nisan. Karaite Jews interpret it as referring to the month in which
barley was ripe.
Nisan
Noun
1. the seventh month of the civil year; the first month of the ecclesiastic year (in March and April)
(synonym) Nissan
(hypernym) Jewish calendar month
(part-holonym) Jewish calendar, Hebrew calendar
nisan
n.
April
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nişan
n.
sign, mark, engagement, betrothal, target, decoration, medal, order, affiance, badge, brand, butt, device, ensign, espousal, gong, plume
Nisan
(n.)
The first month of the jewish ecclesiastical year, formerly answering nearly to the month of April, now to March, of the Christian calendar. See Abib.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Nisan
Nisan (Hebrew) Nisanu (Babylonian) The first month of the Hebrew year (after the exile), corresponding to 'Abib (March-April), during which the Passover was celebrated.
