Arabic names of Gregorian months

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The Arabic names of the months of the Gregorian calendar are usually phonetic Arabic pronunciations of the corresponding month names used in European languages, or in the case of the Gulf Countries and Jordan, their numbers.[1] A main regional exception is the Assyrian calendar names used in Iraq and the Levant, whose month names are inherited via Classical Arabic from the Babylonian and Aramaic lunisolar calendars and correspond to roughly the same time of year.[2]

Though the lunar Hijri calendar and solar Hijri calendar are prominent in the Middle East, the Gregorian calendar is and has been used in nearly all the countries of the Arab world, in many places long before European occupation.[1] All Arab states use the Gregorian calendar for civil purposes.[3]The names of the Gregorian months as used in Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen are widely regarded as standard across the Arab world, although their Classical Arabic names are often used alongside them.{{Citation needed|date=March 2013} ification or actual changes in naming or pronunciation of months are observed.

## Contents

* 1 Iraq and the Levant
* 2 Egypt, Libya, Sudan, and the Gulf
* 2.1 Libya (1969–2011)
* 3 Algeria and Tunisia
* 4 Morocco
* 5 See also
* 6 References

## Iraq and the Levant

These names are used primarily in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine.[4][1] Classical Arabic inherited the Aramaic names from the Babylonian and Assyrian calendars, which are lunisolar.[4] Although the Arabic names are cognate, they do not refer to the lunar months, but rather name the Julian calendar months (and also Gregorian) of the Greek Orthodox liturgical calendar, which serves as a guide post for the old agricultural calendar.[4] Nine of these names were also used in the Ottoman Turkish calendar, of which five remain in use in the modern Turkish calendar.

No. | Month | Arabic name | Transliteration | Syriac cognate | Transliteration

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1 | January | كانُون الثانِي | Kānūn aṯ-Ṯānī | ܟܢܘܢ ܒ | Kānōn [ʾ]Ḥrāy
2 | February | شُباط | Šubāṭ | ܫܒܛ | Šḇāṭ
3 | March | آذار | ʾĀḏār | ܐܕܪ | ʾĀḏar
4 | April | نَيْسان | Naysān | ܢܝܣܢ | Nīsān
5 | May | أَيّار | ʾAyyār | ܐܝܪ | ʾĪyār
6 | June | حَزِيران | Ḥazīrān | ܚܙܝܪܢ | Ḥzīrān
7 | July | تَمُّوز | Tammūz | ܬܡܘܙ | Tammūz
8 | August | آب | ʾĀb | ܐܒ | ʾĀb/Ṭabbāḥ
9 | September | أَيْلُول | ʾAylūl | ܐܝܠܘܠ | ʾĪlūl
10 | October | تِشْرِين الْأَوَّل | Tišrīn al-ʾAwwal | ܬܫܪܝܢ ܐ | Tešrīn Qḏīm
11 | November | تِشْرِين الثانِي | Tišrīn aṯ-Ṯānī | ܬܫܪܝܢ ܒ | Tešrīn [ʾ]Ḥrāy
12 | December | كانُون الْأَوَّل | Kānūn al-ʾAwwal | ܟܢܘܢ ܐ | Kānōn Qḏīm

## Egypt, Libya, Sudan, and the Gulf

No. | Month | Arabic name | Transliteration | Latin name | Egyptian pronunciation

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1 | January | يَنايِر | Yanāyir | Ianuarius | arz
2 | February | فِبْرايِر | Fibrāyir | Februarius | arz
3 | March | مارِس | Mārs/Māris | Martius | arz
4 | April | أَبْرِيل / إبْرِيل | ʾAbrīl / ʾIbrīl | Aprilis | arz
5 | May | مايُو | Māyū | Maius | arz
6 | June | يُونِيُو / يُونِية | Yūniyū / Yūnyah | Iunius | arz
7 | July | يُولِيُو / يُولِية | Yūliyū / Yūliyah | Iulius | arz
8 | August | أَغُسْطُس | ʾAğusṭus | Augustus | arz
9 | September | سِبْتَمْبَر | Sibtambar | September | arz
10 | October | أُكْتُوبَر | ʾUktūbar | October | arz
11 | November | نُوفَمْبَر / نُوَنْبِر | Nūfambar / Nuwanbar | November | arz
12 | December | دِيسَمْبَر | Dīsambar | December | arz

### Libya (1969–2011)

The names of months used in the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977–2011) were derived from various sources, and were assembled after Muammar Gaddafi's seizure of power in 1969 and abolished in 2011 after the 17 February Revolution. The decision of changing calendar names was adopted in June 1986.[5] The Libyan calendar, which followed the same sequence of renamed Gregorian months, counted the years from the death of Prophet Muhammad.[6] This reckoning was therefore ten years behind the Solar Hijri calendar used in Iran and Afghanistan.

No. | Month | Arabic name | Transliteration | Meaning[7]

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1 | January | أَيّ النار | Ayy an-Nār | that of the fires
2 | February | النُوّار | an-Nuwwār | the blooming
3 | March | الرَبِيع | ar-Rabīʿ | the spring
al-Mirrij was also used[8] |
4 | April | الطَيْر | aṭ-Ṭayr | the bird
5 | May | الماء | al-Māʾ | the water
6 | June | الصَيْف | aṣ-Ṣayf | the summer
7 | July | ناصِر | Nāṣir | from Gamal Abd el-Nasser
8 | August | هانِيبال | Hānībāl | from Hannibal Barca
9 | September | الفاتِح | al-Fātiḥ | referring to al-Fateh Revolution
10 | October | التُمُور / الثُمُور | at-Tumūr / aṯ-Ṯumūr | the dates
11 | November | الحَرْث | al-Ḥarṯ | the tillage
12 | December | الكانُون | al-Kānūn | the canon

## Algeria and Tunisia

The names of the Gregorian months in Algeria and Tunisia are based on the French names of the months, reflecting France's long colonisation of these countries (1830–1962 in Algeria; 1881–1956 in Tunisia).[citation needed]

No. | Month | Arabic name | Transliteration | French name

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1 | January | جانْفِي | Jānvi | janvier
2 | February | فِيفْرِي | Fīvri | février
3 | March | مارْس | Mārs / Māris | mars
4 | April | أفْرِيل | ʾAvrīl | avril
5 | May | ماي | Mēy | mai
6 | June | جْوان | Jwān | juin
7 | July | جْوِيلِْية | Jwīlya | juillet
8 | August | أُوت | ʾŪt | août
9 | September | سِبْتُمْبر | Septōmbr | septembre
10 | October | أُكْتُوبر | ʾOktōbr | octobre
11 | November | نُوفُمْبر | Novōmbr | novembre
12 | December | دِيسُمْبر | Desōmbr | décembre

## Morocco

As Morocco was long part of the Roman Empire, the long-standing agricultural Berber calendar of the country preserves the Julian calendar and (in modified form) the names of its months. There are regional variations of the Berber calendar, since some communities did not recognise the Julian 29 February in century years where the Gregorian calendar had no equivalent date. When Morocco adopted the Gregorian calendar for civil purposes, the names of the months were taken from this local tradition.

No. | Month | Arabic name | Transliteration

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1 | January | يَنّايِر | Yannāyir
2 | February | فِبْرايِر | Fibrāyir
3 | March | مارْس | Mārs
4 | April | إبْرِيل | ʾIbrīl
5 | May | ماي | Māy
6 | June | يُونِيُّو | Yūniyyū
7 | July | يُولِيُّوز | Yūliyyūz
8 | August | غُشْت | Ğušt
9 | September | شُتَنْبِر | Šutanbir
10 | October | أُكْتُوبِر | ʾUktūbir
11 | November | نُوَنْبِر | Nuwanbir
12 | December | دُجَنْبِر | Dujanbir

## See also

* Gregorian calendar
* Islamic calendar
* Solar Hijri calendar
* Assyrian calendar
* Hebrew calendar
* Iranian calendars
* Babylonian calendar
* Pre-Islamic Arabian calendar
* Rumi calendar

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Alosh, Mahdi (2005). Using Arabic: Vocabulary. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-64832-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=zKLRnuXzIT8C&dq=gregorian+calendar+names+arabic+syria&pg=PA160.
2. ↑ "The months of the Gregorian (Christian) calendar in various languages: Arabic". http://geonames.de/months.html#ara.
3. ↑ Saudi Arabia was the last Arab country to adopt usage of the Georgian calendar in all official dealings, which took place in 2023.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Qleibo, Ali. "Challenges, Tradition and Faith:Palestinians in Winter". https://www.comunicazionearezzo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/002.pdf. Retrieved 2025-12-16.
5. ↑ "Libya Changes Names Of Months On Calendar - Sun Sentinel". Articles.sun-sentinel.com. 1986-06-23. http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1986-06-23/news/8602060902_1_arab-libya–-news-agency-calendar. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
6. ↑ Libyan Months and Years (historic) Middle East Librarians Association
7. ↑ "Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - الموقع غير الرسمى للقنصلية الليبية بالاسكندرية". https://sites.google.com/site/lyalexcons/home-english/libyan-arab-jamahiriya. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
8. ↑ "Tratamiento del árabe". Conf-dts1.unog.ch. http://conf-dts1.unog.ch/1 SPA/Tradutek/Varios/00-Tratamiento_arabe_Anexo_ManualTraductor.htm. Retrieved 2013-03-25.

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