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Sha'ban

Sha'ban proper noun: the eighth month of the Islamic calendar.

Proper noun

Sha'ban (plural Sha'bans)

  1. The eighth month of the Islamic calendar.
    • 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.1958–1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 19

Sha'ban meaning in Hindi, Arabic, Malay and Indonesian

Sha'ban in Hindi

eighth month of the Islamic calendar
शाबान śābān

Sha'ban in Arabic

eighth month of the Islamic calendar
شَعْبَان šaʕbān

Sha'ban in Malay

eighth month of the Islamic calendar
Syaaban

Sha'ban in Indonesian

eighth month of the Islamic calendar
Syakban
More languagesFewer languages
Sha'ban in Persian
شعبان ša'bân

Forms of Sha'ban

pluralSha'bans
alternative formShaaban
alternative formShaban

Origin of Sha'ban

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

Questions about Sha'ban

What does Sha'ban mean?
Sha'ban means the eighth month of the Islamic calendar.
What is Sha'ban in Hindi?
Sha'ban in Hindi is शाबान (śābān). See Sha'ban meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Sha'ban?
Sha'ban is a proper noun.

Words near Sha'ban in the dictionary

  1. sha
  2. Sha Tau Kok
  3. Sha Tin
  4. Sha'aban
  5. Sha'anxi
  6. Sha'ban
  7. sha'n't
  8. sha'not
  9. Sha-shih
  10. shaadi
  11. shaadis

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