calendar

English

Alternative forms

• kalendar (archaic)
• calender (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old French calendierbor.

Middle English kalender

English calendar

From Middle English kalender, from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (“account book”), from kalendae (“the first day of the month”), from calō (“to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-. Doublet of calendarium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.ən.də/
• (US) enPR: kălʹən-dər, IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.ən.dɚ/, [ˈkʰæl.(ə)n.dɚ]

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æləndə(ɹ)
• Homophones: calender, qalandar, Callander

Noun

calendar (plural calendars)

1. Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.

   The three principal calendars are the Gregorian, Jewish, and Islamic calendars.

2. A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.

   Write his birthday on the calendar hanging on the wall.

3. A list of planned events.

   The club has a busy calendar this year.

4. An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule.

   a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly;  a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court

   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Seditions and Troubles. XV.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 76:

     Shepherds of People, had need know the Kalenders of Tempeſts in State; which are commonly greateſt, when Things grow to Equality; As naturall Tempeſts are greateſt about the Æquinoctia.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:

     The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. […] The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.

5. (US) An appointment book (US), appointment diary (UK)

Usage notes

• Calendar should not be confused with calender.

Synonyms

• (list of planned events): agenda, schedule, docket; calends (uncommon)

Hyponyms

• menologium (monthly calendar); martyrology, menologium (calendar of saints' days); kalendar, menaion (liturgical calendar)

Derived terms

• Advent calendar
• calendar anomaly
• calendar clock
• calendar day
• calendar effect
• calendarer
• calendarial
• calendaric
• calendarise
• calendarist
• calendaristic
• calendarization
• calendarize
• calendarless
• calendarlike
• calendar method
• calendar month
• calendar spread
• calendar year
• calendic
• calendographer
• calendric
• calendrical
• calendrics
• calendry
• Chinese calendar
• Common-Civil-Calendar-and-Time Calendar
• cosmic calendar
• desktop calendar
• diagonal calendar
• extracalendar
• French Republican Calendar
• Gregorian calendar
• Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar
• Hebrew calendar
• Islamic calendar
• Jewish calendar
• Julian calendar
• lunar calendar
• lunisolar calendar
• Mayan Long Count calendar
• Mesoamerican Long Count calendar
• miscalendar
• solar calendar

 

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: kalenda
• → Japanese: カレンダー (karendā)
  • → Korean: 카렌다 (karenda)
• → Korean: 캘린더 (kaellindeo)
• → Swahili: kalenda

Translations

system by which time is divided

• Afrikaans: kalender (af)
• Albanian: kalendar (sq) m
• Apache:

  Western Apache: begoldohí

• Arabic: تَقْوِيم m (taqwīm)

  Egyptian Arabic: تَقْوِيم m (taqwim)

  Hijazi Arabic: تَقْوِيم m (tagwīm)

• Armenian: օրացույց (hy) (ōracʻuycʻ)
• Assamese: দিনপঞ্জী (dinopoñzi)
• Asturian: calendariu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: təqvim (az)
• Basque: egutegi
• Belarusian: калянда́р (be) m (kaljandár)
• Bengali: পঞ্জিকা (bn) (ponjika)
• Breton: deiziadur m
• Bulgarian: календа́р m (kalendár)
• Burmese: ပြက္ခဒိန် (my) (prakhka.din)
• Buryat: литэ (lite), календарь (kaljendarʹ), cагалбар (cagalbar)
• Catalan: calendari (ca) m, (Algherese) calendàriu
• Chechen: рузма (ruzma)
• Cherokee: ᏅᏙᏗᏎᏗ (nvdodisedi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 日曆 / 日历 (jat⁶ lik⁶), 曆 / 历 (lik⁶), 曆法 / 历法 (lik⁶ faat³)

  Mandarin: 日曆 / 日历 (zh) (rìlì), 曆 / 历 (zh) (lì), 曆法 / 历法 (zh) (lìfǎ), (colloquial) 月份牌 (zh) (yuèfènpái)

• Czech: kalendář (cs) m
• Danish: kalender (da) c
• Dutch: kalender (nl) m
• Esperanto: kalendaro
• Estonian: kalender (et)
• Finnish: kalenteri (fi), ajanlasku (fi)
• French: calendrier (fr)
• Galician: calendario (gl) m, luairo m, calendraxo m, calandrario m, pernóstico m, reportorio m
• Georgian: კალენდარი (ka) (ḳalendari)
• German: Kalender (de) m
• Greek: ημερολόγιο (el) n (imerológio)
• Guaraní: arapapaha (gn)
• Hebrew: לוּחַ שָׁנָה (he) m (lúakh shaná)
• Hindi: कालदर्शक (kāldarśak), कैलेण्डर (kaileṇḍar), पंचांग (hi) (pañcāṅg)
• Hungarian: naptár (hu), kalendárium (hu)
• Icelandic: tímatal n, dagatal (is) n
• Indonesian: kalender (id)
• Ingrian: kalendari
• Irish: féilire (ga) m
• Italian: calendario (it) m
• Japanese: 暦 (ja) (こよみ, koyomi), カレンダー (ja) (karendā), 暦法 (ja) (れきほう, rekihō)
• Kalmyk: лит (lit)
• Kannada: ಪಂಚಾಂಗ (kn) (pañcāṅga)
• Kazakh: күнтізбе (kk) (küntızbe), күнпарақ (künparaq)
• Khmer: បដិទិន (km) (paʼdetɨn), ប្រតិទិន (km) (prɑtetɨn)
• Korean: 역법(曆法) (ko) (yeokbeop), 력법(曆法) (ko) (ryeokbeop) (North Korea), 력(曆) (ko) (-ryeok)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: salname (ku), teqwîm (ku)

• Kyrgyz: календарь (ky) (kalendar), күнбарак (künbarak), жылсанак (jılsanak), жылнаама (jılnaama)
• Lao: ປະຕິທີນ (pa ti thīn)
• Latin: fastī m pl
• Latvian: kalendārs m
• Lithuanian: kalendorius m
• Luxembourgish: Kalenner (lb) m
• Macedonian: календар (mk) m (kalendar)
• Malay: kalendar (ms), penanggalan (rarely used), takwim (ms)
• Malayalam: കാലഗണനാരീതി (kālagaṇanārīti), കലണ്ടർ (ml) (kalaṇṭaṟ)
• Maltese: kalendarju, almanakk
• Maori: maramataka (mi)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цагалбар (cagalbar), хуанли (mn) (xuanli), лит (mn) (lit), календарь (mn) (kalendarʹ)

• Navajo: náhidizídí
• Norman: calendriyi m (Jersey)
• Northern Thai: ᨷᨠ᩠ᨡᨴᩨ᩠ᨶ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kalender (no) m

  Nynorsk: kalender m

• Okinawan: 暦 (kuyumi)
• Pannonian Rusyn: календар m (kalendar)
• Pashto: تقويم (ps) m (taqwím)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: تَقْویم (fa) (tağvim), گاه‌شُماری (fa) (gâh-šomâri), سالْنَما (fa) (sâlnamâ), سالْنامِه (fa) (sâlnâme)

• Plautdietsch: Kalenda m
• Polish: kalendarz (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: calendário (pt) m
• Romanian: calendar (ro) n
• Romansch: chalender m, calender m
• Russian: календа́рь (ru) m (kalendárʹ)
• Sami:

  Inari Sami: please add this translation if you can

• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: calendàriu

  Logudorese: calendàriu

• Sassarese: carandàriu
• Scottish Gaelic: mìosachan m
• Semai: surat gechèèq
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: калѐнда̄р m

  Roman: kalèndār (sh) m

• Sicilian: calannariu (scn) m
• Slovak: kalendár m
• Slovene: koledar (sl) m
• Spanish: calendario (es) m
• Swahili: kalenda (sw)
• Swedish: kalender (sv) c
• Tagalog: kalendaryo (tl)
• Tajik: тақвим (tg) (taqvim)
• Tamil: நாட்காட்டி (ta) (nāṭkāṭṭi)
• Tatar: тәкъвим (täqwim)
• Telugu: కేలండరు (kēlaṇḍaru)
• Thai: ปฏิทิน (th) (bpà-dtì-tin)
• Tibetan: ལེ་ཐོ (le tho)
• Turkish: takvim (tr)
• Turkmen: kalendar
• Ukrainian: календа́р m (kalendár)
• Urdu: تَقْوِیم (ur) f (taqvīm)
• Uyghur: كالېندار (kalëndar)
• Uzbek: taqvim (uz), kalendar (uz)
• Vietnamese: lịch (vi) (歷)
• Welsh: calendr (cy) m
• Yakut: халандаар (qalandaar)
• Yiddish: קאַלענדאַר m (kalendar)
• Zazaki: sername (diq) m

means to determine the date

• Afrikaans: kalender (af)
• Arabic: تَقْوِيم m (taqwīm)
• Armenian: օրացույց (hy) (ōracʻuycʻ)
• Basque: egutegi
• Bulgarian: календа́р (kalendár)
• Catalan: calendari (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏅᏓ ᏗᏎᏍᏗ (nvda disesdi)
• Czech: kalendář (cs) m
• Dutch: kalender (nl) m
• Estonian: kalender (et)
• Finnish: kalenteri (fi), almanakka (fi) (archaic)
• French: calendrier (fr) m
• Galician: almanaque m
• Georgian: კალენდარი (ka) (ḳalendari)
• German: Kalender (de) m
• Greek: ημερολόγιο (el) n (imerológio)
• Hebrew: לוּחַ שָׁנָה (he) m (lúakh shaná), יוֹמָן (he) m (yomán)
• Hindi: जन्त्री (hi) f (jantrī), पत्रा (hi) m (patrā)
• Hungarian: naptár (hu), kalendárium (hu), határidőnapló (hu)
• Icelandic: dagatal (is) n
• Indonesian: kalender (id)
• Ingrian: kalendari
• Irish: féilire (ga) m
• Italian: calendario (it) m
• Japanese: カレンダー (ja) (karendā)
• Jeju: ᄃᆞᆯ력 (dawllyeok)
• Kalmyk: лит (lit)
• Kazakh: күнпарақ (künparaq)
• Korean: 달력 (ko) (dallyeok), 캘린더 (ko) (kaellindeo)
• Kurdish:

  Southern Kurdish: ڕووژشمار (rûjişmar)

• Latin: calendarium m
• Latvian: kalendārs m
• Lithuanian: kalendorius m
• Macedonian: календар (mk) m (kalendar)
• Malagasy: kalandrier (mg)
• Malay: kalendar (ms)
• Malayalam: കലണ്ടർ (ml) (kalaṇṭaṟ)
• Maltese: kalendarju
• Maori: maramataka (mi)
• Navajo: yoołkáłí, náhidizídí, bikʼehgo náhidizídígíí
• Norman: calendriyi m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kalender (no) m

  Nynorsk: kalender m

• Old English: gerīmbōc f
• Ottoman Turkish: روزنامه (ruzname)
• Polish: kalendarz (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: calendário (pt) m
• Romanian: calendar (ro) n
• Russian: календа́рь (ru) m (kalendárʹ)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: calendàriu

  Logudorese: calendàriu

• Sassarese: carandàriu
• Scottish Gaelic: mìosachan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: калѐнда̄р m

  Roman: kalèndār (sh) m

• Sicilian: calannariu (scn) m
• Slovak: kalendár m
• Slovene: koledar (sl) m
• Spanish: calendario (es) m
• Swedish: kalender (sv) c
• Turkish: takvim (tr)
• Urdu: تَقْوِیم (ur) f (taqvīm), جَنْتَری f (jantarī), پَتْرا m (patrā)
• Vietnamese: lịch (vi)
• Welsh: calendr (cy) m
• Yiddish: קאַלענדאַר m (kalendar)
• Yoruba: kàlẹ́ńdà
• Zazaki: teqwim (diq) m

list of planned events

• Afrikaans: kalender (af)
• Bulgarian: о́пис (bg) m (ópis), спи́сък (bg) m (spísǎk)
• Catalan: calendari (ca) m, agenda (ca) f
• Czech: kalendář (cs) m
• Dutch: agenda (nl) m, schema (nl) n, kalender (nl) c
• Finnish: toimintakalenteri, aikataulu (fi)
• French: agenda (fr) m, emploi du temps (fr) m, programme (fr) m
• Greek: πρόγραμμα (el) n (prógramma)
• Hebrew: לוּחַ זְמַנִּים (he) m (lúakh zmaním), לו״ז m (luz)
• Hungarian: program (hu), eseménylista
• Indonesian: jadwal (id), agenda (id)
• Italian: calendario (it) m
• Kalmyk: лит (lit)
• Lithuanian: kalendorius m
• Macedonian: календар (mk) m (kalendar), распоред m (raspored)
• Maltese: kalendarju
• Norman: almonnas m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kalender (no) m

  Nynorsk: kalender m

• Polish: kalendarz (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: agenda (pt) f, calendário (pt) m
• Romanian: agendă (ro) f, program (ro) n, calendar (ro) n
• Russian: расписа́ние (ru) n (raspisánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: mìosachan m
• Slovak: kalendár m
• Spanish: agenda (es) f
• Swedish: agenda (sv) c
• Turkish: takvim (tr)

orderly list

• Bulgarian: реги́стър (bg) m (regístǎr)
• Finnish: luettelo (fi), aikataulu (fi), ohjelma (fi)
• Greek: πρόγραμμα (el) n (prógramma), κατάλογος (el) m (katálogos)
• Russian: реги́стр (ru) m (regístr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} kalendar (sq) m
• Breton: ^{(please verify)} deiziadur m
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 력(曆) (-ryeok)

Verb

calendar (third-person singular simple present calendars, present participle calendaring, simple past and past participle calendared)

1. (law, transitive) To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.

   The judge agreed to calendar a hearing for pretrial motions for the week of May 15, but did not agree to calendar the trial itself on a specific date.

2. (transitive) To enter or write in a calendar; to register.
   • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     Wee are generally more apt to Kalender Saints then Sinners dayes.

Translations

to set a date for a proceeding in court

• Bulgarian: насрочвам (bg) (nasročvam)
• Dutch: vastleggen (nl)
• Spanish: calendarizar (es)
• Zazaki: areze m

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) Gregorian calendar month; January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December ^{(Category: en:Gregorian calendar months)}
• (Hebrew calendar months) Hebrew calendar month; Tishrei, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul ^{(Category: en:Hebrew calendar months)}
• (Islamic calendar months) Islamic calendar month; Muharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Sha'ban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu'l-Qa'da, Dhu'l-Hijja ^{(Category: en:Islamic calendar months)}

Further reading

• Calendar in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• calander, landcare, landrace

Romanian

Alternative forms

• călindar — popular

Etymology

Borrowed (in this form) from Latin calendārium. Compare the inherited doublet cărindar.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

calendar n (plural calendare)

1. calendar
2. almanac

   Synonym: almanah

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	calendar	calendarul		calendare	calendarele
genitive-dative	calendar	calendarului		calendare	calendarelor
vocative	calendarule			calendarelor

Related terms

• cărindar