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PRONUNCIATION OF LUNAR YEAR

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LUNAR YEAR

noun
adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Lunar year is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LUNAR YEAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

lunar year

Lunar calendar

A lunar calendar is a calendar that is based on cycles of the lunar phases. Because there are slightly more than twelve lunations in a solar year, the period of 12 lunar months is sometimes referred to as a lunar year. A common purely lunar calendar is the Islamic calendar or Hijri Qamari calendar. A feature of the Islamic calendar is that a year is always 12 months, so the months are not linked with the seasons and drift each solar year by 11 to 12 days. It comes back to the position it had in relation to the solar year approximately every 33 Islamic years. It is used mainly for religious purposes, but in Saudi Arabia it is the official calendar. Other lunar calendars often include extra months added occasionally to synchronize it with the solar calendar. The oldest known lunar calendar was found in Scotland; it dates back to around 10000 BP.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LUNAR YEAR

luna moth
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lunacy
lunar
lunar caustic
lunar eclipse
lunar landing
lunar module
lunar month
lunar orbit
lunarian
lunarist
lunarnaut
lunary
lunate
lunated
lunately
lunatic
lunatic asylum
lunatic fringe

WORDS THAT END LIKE LUNAR YEAR

academic year
accounting year
base year
calendar year
financial year
first year
fiscal year
gap year
great year
leap year
light year
off year
peak year
school year
senior year
sixth year
solar year
tax year
taxable year
vintage year
year

Synonyms and antonyms of lunar year in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lunar year» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LUNAR YEAR

Find out the translation of lunar year to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lunar year from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lunar year» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

农历年
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

año lunar
570 millions of speakers

English

lunar year
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चंद्र वर्ष
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

السنة القمرية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лунный год
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ano lunar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চন্দ্র বর্ষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

année lunaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tahun lunar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mondjahr
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

太陰年
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

음력
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lunar taun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

năm âm lịch
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சந்திர ஆண்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चंद्राचा वर्ष
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ay yılı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

anno lunare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rok księżycowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

місячний рік
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

an lunar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σεληνιακού έτους
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

maan jaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lunar år
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

galskap år
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lunar year

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LUNAR YEAR»

The term «lunar year» is regularly used and occupies the 68.776 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LUNAR YEAR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lunar year

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LUNAR YEAR»

Discover the use of lunar year in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lunar year and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Lunar Wheel of the Year:
There are thirteen moons in a Wiccan lunar year. Each of these moons emphasize the different energies through which both you and the earth are progressing. The Wiccan lunar year begins after Yule with the Wolf Moon, and progresses ...
Kathy Cybele, 2011
2
The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints
By the Epact is meant, the number of days which the lunar year differs from the solar corresponding to it. But to make this definition more intelligible, it must be observed, that years are of two kinds : those which the course of the sun regulates, ...
Alban Butler, 1845
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Old Testament Survey: The Message, Form, and Background of ...
The year of twelve lunar months is a lunar year; that of approximately 365 days is a solar year. The lunar year is satisfactory for nomads, who move their flocks with the seasons and need not know when to plow and plant. But the farmers of ...
William Sanford La Sor, David Allan Hubbard, Frederic William Bush, 1996
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Calendrical Calculations
... hindu-lunar-station hindu-lunar-year hindu-mean-position hindu-new-moon- before hindu-rising-sign hindu-sine rational-moment fixed-date 〈hindu-lunar- month, hindu-lunar-day, hindu-lunar-year〉 fixed-date fixed-date 〈hindu-lunar- month, ...
Nachum Dershowitz, Edward M. Reingold, 2008
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Vietnam
Approximately every third year is a leap year; an extra month is added between the third and fourth months to keep the lunar year in time with the solar year. If this was not done, the seasons would shift around the lunar year, playing havoc with ...
Nick Ray, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, 2010
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The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created ...
on the nineteenth day of the first month of the lunar year received 45 coins On the twenty-eighth day of the tenth month of the lunar year presented a modern mirror in exchange for another 70 coins Redeemed, the seventeenth day of the ...
William N. Goetzmann, K. Geert Rouwenhorst, 2005
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A system of natural philosophy: being a course of lectures ...
We have shewn in proposition 383, that 12 lunar months make a wandering lunar year consisting of 3 54 days : and we have shewn in proposition 385, that the beginning of the lunar year may be fixed, in re- Ipect of the seasons, ...
Thomas Rutherforth, 1748
8
The Mathematics of the Calendar
After one lunar year, 354 days have passed. However, after one solar year, 365 days have passed and so the lunar year fell behind the solar year by 11 days ( 365 – 354). Thus, the solar year ended on December 31st and the lunar year ended ...
Marc Cohn, 2007
9
Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle
On the other hand, the starting day of the Hegira lunar year is the 16th of July ( A.D), the first Friday of the month of Muharram of the same year. The migration of our Prophet (sallalâhu alaihi wa sallam) took place in 622 (A.D.). The beginning of ...
M. Siddik Gumus
10
A Complete System of Astronomical Chronology Unfolding the ...
Noah entered into the ark in the 6ooth solar tropical year of his life, and was ordered to come out in theoolst; the flood came in the second month, and on the seventeenth day of the month of the first lunar year; and he was loosed from his ...
John Kennedy, 1762

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LUNAR YEAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lunar year is used in the context of the following news items.
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In a Word . . . Ramadan - The Irish Times
Every 33 years, approximately, the lunar year coincides with our more familiar solar year. The first year of the Islamic calendar dates from AD ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
2
Local Muslims celebrate the end of Ramadan
The endurance and understanding developed or renewed over the course of Ramadan hopefully is maintained for the rest of the lunar year ... «GoDanRiver.com, Jul 15»
3
EID'UL FITR MESSAGES | Poe, Chiz echo unity amid religious …
Eid'ul Fitr marks not just the end of Ramadan but the beginning of the Shawwal, the 10th month of the lunar year. After 30 days of sacrifice, ... «InterAksyon, Jul 15»
4
Filipinos urged to unite despite religious beliefs
... 2002, marks the end of the month-long fast during Ramadan and the beginning of the month Shawwal, the 10th month of the lunar year. «Sun.Star, Jul 15»
5
Wildfire sweeps across California freeway, burns cars
... imam Friday morning. The crowd of about 50 Muslims had gathered to mark the end of the holiest month of the lunar year called Ramadan. «GoDanRiver.com, Jul 15»
6
Lee Daniels on Emmys Instagram video: 'I was having fun'
... imam Friday morning. The crowd of about 50 Muslims had gathered to mark the end of the holiest month of the lunar year called Ramadan. «GoDanRiver.com, Jul 15»
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Greg Poehler returns for second season of Swedish comedy
... imam Friday morning. The crowd of about 50 Muslims had gathered to mark the end of the holiest month of the lunar year called Ramadan. «GoDanRiver.com, Jul 15»
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Chiz calls for end to divisiveness
... Escudero pointed out Eid'l Fitr marks not just the end of Ramadan but the beginning of the Shawwal, the 10th month of the lunar year. «Tempo, Jul 15»
9
Pakistan Cotton Yarn Export Prices Monthly Report
... not significantly move in the past weeks on Pakistan's export market, whatever the fall of demand from China before the lunar year holidays. «EmergingTextiles.com, Jul 15»
10
16 July, 622: The day Islamic calendar starts from
... their own tabular Islamic calendar, which had alternating 30- and 29-day months in each lunar year plus eleven leap days every 30 years. «indiatvnews.com, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Lunar year [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/lunar-year>. Apr 2024 ».
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