Nisan
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /niːˈsɑːn/, /ˈnɪsən/
- Rhymes: -ɑːn, -ɪsən
Proper noun
Nisan
- (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.
- 2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 346:
- Micky Vayner shrugged; as far as he knew, it was, by the lunar calendar, an ordinary day in the month of Nisan.
Translations
seventh month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar
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Proper noun
Nisan
- a male given name
- a female given name