Sha'ban

English

Alternative forms

• Shaaban, Shaban

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.

Translations

eighth month of the Islamic calendar

• Arabic: شَعْبَان m (šaʕbān)
• Azerbaijani: şəban
• Bashkir: шәғбан (şəğban)
• French: chaabane (fr)
• Indonesian: Syakban
• Japanese: シャアバーン (ja) (Shaabān)
• Kazakh: шағбан (şağban)
• Malay: Syaaban (ms)
• Ottoman Turkish: شعبان (şaʿbân)
• Persian: شعبان (fa) (ša'bân)
• Russian: шааба́н m (šaabán)
• Tajik: шаъбон (šaʾbon)
• Tatar: шәгъбан (şäğban)
• Turkish: Şaban (tr)
• Uyghur: شەئبان (she'ban)
• Uzbek: shaʼbon (uz)

See also

Islamic calendar monthsedit

• Muharram
• Safar
• Rabi I
• Rabi II
• Jumada I
• Jumada II
• Rajab
• Sha'ban
• Ramadan
• Shawwal
• Dhu'l-Qa'da
• Dhu'l-Hijja

Anagrams

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