Ashura

See also: ashura

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَاشُورَاء (ʕāšūrāʔ, “tenth, tenth day”).

Proper noun

Ashura

2. (Islam) A holy day falling on the 10th day of Muharram, an optional fasting day for Sunni Muslim and a commemoration day of the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali in 680 AD for Shia Muslim.

Alternative forms

• ‘Ashura

Translations

(Islam) a holy day falling on the 10th day of Muharram

• Arabic: عَاشُورَاء (ʕāšūrāʔ)
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Bengali: আশুরা (bn) (aśura)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿舒拉節 / 阿舒拉节 (Āshūlājié)

• French: Achoura (fr)
• Hindi: आशूरा m (āśūrā)
• Indonesian: Asyura
• Japanese: アーシューラー (āshūrā)
• Kazakh: Ашура күні (Aşura künı)
• Malay: Asyura
• Persian: عاشورا (fa) ('âšurâ)
• Polish: Aszura (pl) f
• Portuguese: Ashura f or m
• Tajik: Ошуро (Ošuro)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: عاشورا m ('āśūrā)

Anagrams

• Aarhus, Aarush, Arusha, ahuras