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Home Dictionary Name: mohammedan yearMohammedan year
The year used by Mohammedans consisting of twelve lunar months without intercalation so that they retrograde through all the seasons in about 3212 years The Mohammedan era begins with the year 622 a d the first day of the Mohammedan year 1332 being Nov 30 1913 acording to the Gregorian calendar...
Mohammedan Era
The era in use in Moslem countries See Mohammedan year below...
VerbarMohurrum
The first month of the Mohammedan year...
Calendar
Calendar [fr. Calendarium, Lat.; fr. Calend', the first day in the month in Roman reckoning], the order and series of months, together with the festivals and fasts, which make up the year. There are two modes of computing time-by the annual course of the sun, and by the periodical revolutions of the moon. The solar year consists of 365 days, 5 hours, 48', 45', 30'; the lunar year of 354 days, 3 hours, 48', 38', 12'. The Mohammedans adopt the lunar year. The solar year, calculated by the ancient Egyptians, has undergone various corrections and denominations.The chief of the calendars now in use are the three following: (1) The Julian, so called because Julius C'sar introduced into the Roman Empire the solar or Egyptian year, instead of the lunar year. The Russians and Greeks are the only nations that now use the Julian year. The common Julian year consists of 365 days, and the bissextile or leap-year (see that title), which returns every four years, of 366 days. This computation is faul...
Mohammedan calendar
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 days the others are common having 354 days...
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