Nisan

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

English

Etymology

From Hebrew נִיסָן (nisán).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /niːˈsɑːn/, /ˈnɪsən/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn, -ɪsən

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.
   • 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

• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܝܣܢ (nisn)
• Czech: nisan (cs)
• Hebrew: נִיסָן (he) m
• Irish: Níosán m
• Persian: نیسان (fa) (nisân)
• Yiddish: ניסן (nisn)

See also

Hebrew calendar monthsedit

• Tishrei
• Cheshvan
• Kislev
• Tevet
• Shevat
• Adar
• Nisan
• Iyar
• Sivan
• Tammuz
• Av
• Elul

Further reading

• Nisan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ninas, Sinan, ninas, NINAs, Nansi, Annis

Turkish

Proper noun

Nisan

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