Ramadan

See also: ramadan and ramadán

English

Alternative forms

• Ramadhan, Ramadzan, Rhamadan

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic رَمَضَان (ramaḍān), from اِرْتَمَضَ (irtamaḍa, “to be consumed by grief and sorrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹæməˈdɑːn/, /ˈɹæmədæn/

Proper noun

Ramadan (plural Ramadans)

1. (Islam) The holy ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, during which Muslims fast between the break of dawn until sunset; they also refrain from drinking liquids, smoking and having sexual relations.
2. A male given name

Translations

holy ninth month of Islamic lunar calendar

• Albanian: ramazan (sq) m
• Amharic: ረመዳን (rämädan)
• Arabic: رَمَضَان (ar) m (ramaḍān)
• Aramaic: ܪܡܕܐܢ (ܪܡܕܐܢ)
• Armenian: Ռամադան (Ṙamadan)
• Azerbaijani: Ramazan
• Bashkir: рамаҙан (ramaźan)
• Belarusian: рамада́н m (ramadán)
• Bengali: রমজান (bn) (rômôzan)
• Bulgarian: рамаза́н m (ramazán)
• Catalan: ramadà m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 齋月／斋月 (zh) (zhāiyuè), 斋月 (zh) (zhāiyuè), 拉馬丹／拉马丹, 拉马丹 (lāmǎdān), 賴買丹月／赖买丹月 (Làimǎidānyuè), 赖买丹月 (làimǎidān yuè)

• Crimean Tatar: ramazan
• Danish: ramadan c
• Dutch: ramadan (nl) m
• Estonian: ramadaan
• Faroese: ramadan f
• Finnish: ramadan (fi)
• French: ramadan (fr) m
• Georgian: რამადანი (ramadani)
• German: Ramadan (de) m
• Greek: Ραμαζάνι (Ramazáni)
• Gujarati: રમજાન (ramjān)
• Hausa: Ramalan
• Hebrew: רמדאן m (ramadan)
• Hindi: रमज़ान m (ramzān), रमजान (hi) m (ramjān)
• Hungarian: ramadán (hu)
• Indonesian: Ramadan
• Japanese: ラマダン (ramadan), ラマダーン (ramadān)
• Kannada: ರಂಜಾನ್ (rañjān)
• Kazakh: рамазан (ramazan)
• Khmer: រ៉ាម៉ាដាន (raamaadaan)
• Korean: 라마단 (ko) (ramadan)
• Kumyk: рамазан (ramazan)
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• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

  Sorani:

• Kyrgyz: рамазан (ramazan)
• Malay: Ramadan (ms), Ramalan, bulan puasa (ms)
• Malayalam: റമദാൻ (ṟamadāṉ)
• Maltese: Ramadan m
• Marathi: रमजान m (ramjān)
• Oriya: ରମଜାନ (ramajān)
• Pashto: رمضان (ps) m (ramazãn)
• Persian: رمضان (fa) (ramazân, ramzân)
• Polish: ramadan (pl) m
• Portuguese: Ramadão m
• Punjabi: ਰਮਜ਼ਾਨ (ramzān), ਰਮਦਾਨ (ramdān)
• Russian: рамада́н (ru) m (ramadán), рамаза́н (ru) m (ramazán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рамазан m

  Roman: ramazan (sh) m

• Spanish: Ramadán m
• Swahili: Ramadhani
• Swedish: ramadan (sv) c
• Tagalog: Ramadan
• Tajik: рамазон (ramazon)
• Tatar: рамазан (tt) (ramazan)
• Telugu: రంజాన్ (rañjān)
• Thai: รอมะฎอน (rɔɔ-má-dɔɔn)
• Turkish: ramazan (tr)
• Turkmen: ramazan
• Ukrainian: рамада́н m (ramadán)
• Urdu: رمضان (ur) m (ramazān)
• Uyghur: رامزان (ramzan)
• Uzbek: ramazan (uz)
• Vietnamese: ra-ma-đan
• Yiddish: ראַמאַדאַן m (ramadan)
• Yoruba: oṣu âwẹ Imale

See also

• (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)}

Anagrams

• Narmada, mandara, mardana

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Malay

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic رَمَضَان (ramaḍān), from اِرْتَمَضَ (irtamaḍa, “to be consumed by grief and sorrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ramadan/

Proper noun

Ramadan (Jawi spelling رمضان)

1. The ninth month in the Hijri calendar; fasting month.

Synonyms

• bulan puasa / بولن ڤواسا
• Ramalan / راملن

Derived terms

Terms derived from Ramadan

• Ramadan al-Mubarak

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Ramadan m

1. Alternative form of Ramadão