Sha'ban
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Arabic شَعْبَان (šaʕbān), from شَعَبَ (šaʕaba, “to scatter, to disperse”).
Proper noun[edit]
Sha'ban (plural Sha'bans)
- The eighth month of the Islamic calendar.
- 1958–1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 19:
- They go out also to spend the night there on the night if mid-Sha'ban, and the market people take out all kinds of eatables.
- 1958–1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 19:
Translations[edit]
eighth month of the Islamic calendar
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See also[edit]
- (Islamic calendar months) Islamic calendar month; Muharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Sha'ban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu'l-Qa'da, Dhu'l-Hijja (Category: en:Islamic months)