DHU AL-HIJJAH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dhu al-Hijjah mean? 

• DHU AL-HIJJAH (noun)
  The noun DHU AL-HIJJAH has 1 sense:

1. the twelfth month of the Islamic calendar and the season of the hajj; has one extra day in leap years

  Familiarity information: DHU AL-HIJJAH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DHU AL-HIJJAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The twelfth month of the Islamic calendar and the season of the hajj; has one extra day in leap years

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Dhu'l-Hijja; Dhu'l-Hijjah; Dhu al-Hijja; Dhu al-Hijjah

Hypernyms ("Dhu al-Hijjah" is a kind of...):

Islamic calendar month (any lunar month in the Muslim calendar)

Holonyms ("Dhu al-Hijjah" is a part of...):

Islamic calendar; Mohammedan calendar; Moslem calendar; Muhammadan calendar; Muslim calendar (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)