lunar calendar

English

Noun

lunar calendar (plural lunar calendars)

1. A calendar that measures the passage of the year according to the phases of the moon, as opposed to the revolution of the earth around the sun; a calendar of the lunar year.

Hyponyms

• Islamic calendar

Coordinate terms

• solar calendar
• lunisolar calendar

Translations

a calendar that measures the passage of the year according to the phases of the moon

• Afrikaans: maankalender
• Arabic: تقويم قمري
• Azerbaijani: ay təqvimi
• Bengali: চন্দ্র পঞ্জিকা (condro ponjika)
• Bulgarian: лунен календар m (lunen kalendar)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 陰曆／阴历 (jam¹ lik⁶), 太陰曆／太阴历 (taai³ jam¹ lik⁶)

  Hokkien: 陰曆／阴历 (im-le̍k)

  Mandarin: 陰曆／阴历 (zh) (yīnlì), 太陰曆／太阴历 (zh) (tàiyīnlì)

• Czech: lunární kalendář m
• Dutch: maankalender
• Esperanto: luna kalendaro
• Finnish: kuukalenteri
• French: calendrier lunaire m
• Galician: calendario lunar m
• Georgian: მთვარის კალენდარი (mtvaris ḳalendari)
• German: Mondkalender (de) m, Lunarkalender m
• Greek: σεληνιακό ημερολόγιο n (seliniakó imerológio)
• Hindi: चन्द्र पंचांग (candra pañcāṅg)
• Hungarian: holdnaptár (hu)
• Irish: féilire na gealaí m
• Italian: calendario lunare m
• Japanese: 太陰暦 (ja) (たいいんれき, taiinreki), 陰暦 (ja) (いんれき, inreki)
• Kazakh: ай күнтізбесі (ai küntızbesı)
• Korean: 음력(陰暦) (ko) (eumnyeok)
• Macedonian: месечев календар m (mesečev kalendar)
• Malay: takwim qamari
• Maori: maramataka (mi)
• Mongolian: билгийн тоолол (bilgiin toolol)
• Nepali: चन्द्रमासिक सम्वत् (candramāsik samvat)
• Norwegian: månekalender
• Persian: گاه‌شماری قمری
• Polish: kalendarz księżycowy m
• Portuguese: calendário lunar (pt) m
• Russian: лу́нный календа́рь (ru) m (lúnnyj kalendárʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: lunarni kalendar m, лунарни календар m
• Slovak: lunárny kalendár m
• Spanish: calendario lunar (es) m
• Swedish: månkalender (sv) c
• Tamil: சந்திர நாட்காட்டி (cantira nāṭkāṭṭi)
• Telugu: చాంద్రమానము (te) (cāndramānamu)
• Thai: ปฏิทินจันทรคติ
• Turkish: ay takvimi (tr)
• Ukrainian: мі́сячний календа́р m (mísjačnyj kalendár)
• Uzbek: oy taqvimi
• Vietnamese: âm lịch (vi) (陰暦)