Sha'ban

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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَعْبَان (šaʕbān), from شَعَبَ (šaʕaba, “to scatter, to disperse”).

Proper noun

Sha'ban (plural Sha'bans)

  1. The eighth month of the Islamic calendar.
    • 1958–1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 19:
      They go out also to spend the night there on the night if mid-Sha'ban, and the market people take out all kinds of eatables.

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Islamic calendar monthsedit

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