ניסן

• ܢܝܣܢ (nīsān)

From Akkadian 𒌚𒁈 (nisannum), from Sumerian 𒉠 (nesag̃).

נִיסָן • (nīsān) m

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

• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܝܼܣܵܢ (nīsān)
• Turoyo: ܢܝܣܷܢ (nisën)
• Classical Syriac: ܢܝܣܢ (nīsān)
  • → Arabic: نيسان (naysān)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: نیسان (nisan)
      • Turkish: nisan
      • Northern Kurdish: nîsan
    • → Persian: نَیسان (neysân)

• “nysn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[1], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 906

From Akkadian 𒌚𒁈 (nisannum), from Sumerian 𒉠 (nesag̃).

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נִיסָן • (nisán) m

1. (Judaism) Nisan (the seventh month of the civil year and the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Adar and before Iyar)
   • Tanach, Nehemiah 2:1, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וַיְהִי בְּחֹדֶשׁ נִיסָן שְׁנַת עֶשְׂרִים לְאַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא הַמֶּלֶךְ יַיִן לְפָנָיו וָאֶשָּׂא אֶת־הַיַּיִן וָאֶתְּנָה לַמֶּלֶךְ וְלֹא־הָיִיתִי רַע לְפָנָיו׃

     Vayhí b-ḥódesh Nisan shnat 'esrím l-Artaḥshást' ha-mélekh yáyin l'fanáv va-esá et ha-yáyin va-etná la-mélekh v-lo hayíti ra' l'fanáv.

     And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.

   • a. 217 C.E., Mishnah. Pesachim, section 4.9:

     עִבֵּר נִיסָן בְּנִיסָן, וְלֹא הוֹדוּ לוֹ:

     'Ibér Nisán b-Nisán, v-lo hodu lo.

     He intercalated Nisan in Nisan, and they did not condone him.

   • a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud. Rosh Hashanah, 11a:

     רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ אוֹמֵר: בְּנִיסָן נִבְרָא הָעוֹלָם, בְּנִיסָן נוֹלְדוּ אָבוֹת, בְּנִיסָן מֵתוּ אָבוֹת

     Rabbí Yehoshúa' omér: B-Nisán nivrá ha-'olám, b-Nisán noldú avót, b-Nisán métu avót.

     Rabbi Yehoshua says: In Nisan the world was created, in Nisan the patriarchs were born, in Nisan the patriarchs died.

2. a male given name

• H5212 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

• ניסן on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

From Middle High German niesen, from Old High German niosan, from Proto-West Germanic *hneusan, from Proto-Germanic *hneusaną, a variant of *fneusaną. Cognate with German niesen, Dutch niezen, English sneeze.

• (YIVO, Northeastern) IPA^(key): /ˈnɪsn̩/
• (Poylish, Ukrainish) IPA^(key): /ˈniːsn̩/

ניסן • (nisn) (past participle גענאָסן (genosn))

1. to sneeze

• נאָס (nos)
• ניס (nis)
• ניסערײַ (niseray)

From Hebrew נִיסָן.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɪsn̩/

ניסן • (nisn) m

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