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NORUZ
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Noruz mean?
• NORUZ (noun)
The noun NORUZ has 1 sense:
1. (Persian) the new year holiday in Iran and Azerbaijan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and parts of India and among the Kurds; comes at the vernal equinox
Familiarity information: NORUZ used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Persian) the new year holiday in Iran and Azerbaijan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and parts of India and among the Kurds; comes at the vernal equinox
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("Noruz" is a kind of...):
March equinox; spring equinox; vernal equinox (March 21)
Domain category:
Farsi; Persian (the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms)
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