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say it: RAM-uh-duhn
ramadan is a noun meaning "the ninth month of the Islamic calendar; the month of fasting; the holiest period for the Islamic faith". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the ninth month of the Islamic calendar; the month of fasting; the holiest period for the Islamic faith
(Islam) a fast (held from sunrise to sunset) that is carried out during the Islamic month of Ramadan
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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ramadan come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.