NOWROOZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nowrooz mean? 

• NOWROOZ (noun)
  The noun NOWROOZ 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: NOWROOZ used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOWROOZ (noun)

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:

Noruz; Nowrooz; Nowruz

Hypernyms ("Nowrooz" 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)