Sha'aban

English

Alternative forms

• Sha'ban, Shaaban

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَعْبَان (šaʕbān), from شَعَبَ (šaʕaba, “to scatter, to disperse”).

Proper noun

Sha'aban (plural Sha'abans)

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: şaban
• French: chaabane (fr)
• Hausa: Sha'aban m
• Malay: Syaaban (ms), bulan arwah, bulan ruah
• Persian: شعبان (fa) (ša'bân)
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• Russian: шааба́н m (šaabán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ша̀ба̄н m

  Roman: šàbān (sh) m

• Swahili: Shaabani
• Turkish: Şaban (tr)

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

• Sabahan

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Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَعْبَان (šaʕbān).

Proper noun

Shà'àbân m

1. Sha'aban

See also

(Islamic calendar months) wata; Muharram, Safar, Rabi'u Lawwal, Rabi'u Lahir, Jimada Lawwal, Jimada Lahir, Rajab, Sha'aban, Ramalan, Shawwal, Zulƙida, Zulhajji ^{(Category: ha:Islamic calendar months)}