mohammedan calendar

Questions about mohammedan calendar

What does mohammedan calendar mean?

mohammedan calendar means "the lunar calendar used by Muslims; dates from 622 AD (the year of the Hegira); the beginning of the Muslim year retrogresses through the solar year completing the cycle every 32 years".

What is another word for mohammedan calendar?

Close synonyms include Islamic calendar, Muhammadan calendar, Moslem calendar, Muslim calendar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mohammedan calendar a common word?

mohammedan calendar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.