Nisan

See also: nisan, nisän, nišan, nişan, and nî-saⁿ

English

Etymology

From Hebrew נִיסָן (nisán).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /niːˈsɑːn/, /ˈnɪsən/
    • Rhymes: -ɑːn, -ɪsən
  • IPA(key): (obsolete) /ˈnaɪsæn/[1]

Proper noun

Nisan

  2. (Judaism) The seventh month of the civil year and the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Adar and before Iyar.

Translations

See also

Hebrew calendar monthsedit

References

  1. ^ Michaelis, Hermann; Jones, Daniel (1913), “'naisæn”, in A Phonetic Dictionary of the English Language (Sammlung Phonetischer Wörterbücher; 2)‎[1], Hanover: Carl Meyer (Gustav Prior), →OCLC, page 298.

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Turkish

Proper noun

Nisan

  1. a male given name
  2. a female given name
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