JEWISH CALENDAR MONTH
Dictionary entry overview: What does Jewish calendar month mean?
• JEWISH CALENDAR MONTH (noun)
The noun JEWISH CALENDAR MONTH has 1 sense:
1. a month in the Jewish calendar
Familiarity information: JEWISH CALENDAR MONTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• JEWISH CALENDAR MONTH (noun)
Meaning:
A month in the Jewish calendar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Jewish calendar month" is a kind of...):
calendar month; month (one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Jewish calendar month"):
Ellul; Elul (the twelfth month of the civil year; the sixth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in August and September))
Ab; Av (the eleventh month of the civil year; the fifth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in July and August))
Tammuz; Thammuz (the tenth month of the civil year; the fourth month of the ecclesiastic year (in June and July))
Sivan; Siwan (the ninth month of the civil year; the third month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in May and June))
Iyar; Iyyar (the eighth month of the civil year; the second month of the ecclesiastical year (in April and May))
Nisan; Nissan (the seventh month of the civil year; the first month of the ecclesiastic year (in March and April))
Adar Sheni; Veadar (included seven times in every 19 years)
Adar (the sixth month of the civil year; the twelfth month of the ecclesiastic year in the Jewish calendar (in February and March))
Shebat; Shevat (the fifth month of the civil year: the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in January and February))
Tebet; Tevet (the fourth month of the civil year; the tenth month of the ecclesiastical year (in December and January))
Chislev; Kislev (the third month of the civil year; the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in November and December))
Heshvan (the second month of the civil year; the eighth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in October and November))
Tishri (the first month of the civil year; the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in September and October))
Holonyms ("Jewish calendar month" is a part of...):
Hebrew calendar; Jewish calendar ((Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews; dates from 3761 BC (the assumed date of the creation of the world); a lunar year of 354 days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years)
