شعبان

From شَعَبَ‎ (šaʿaba, “to scatter, to disperse”).

شَعْبَان • (šaʿbān) m

1. Sha'aban, the eighth of the twelve months of the Muslim lunar calendar, each beginning with a new moon. Sha'aban means "scattered" in Arabic, and is the time when ancient people dispersed to find water.

• (Islamic calendar months) أَشْهُر التَّقَوِيم الْهِجْرِيّ‎ (ʾašhur at-taqawīm al-hijriyy); اَلْمُحَرَّم‎ (al-muḥarram), صَفَر‎ (ṣafar), رَبِيع الْأَوَّل‎ (rabīʿ al-ʾawwal), رَبِيع الْآخِر‎ (rabīʿ al-ʾāḵir), جُمَادَى الْأُولَى‎ (jumādā l-ʾūlā), جُمَادَى الْآخِرَة‎ (jumādā l-ʾāḵira), رَجَب‎ (rajab), شَعْبَان (šaʿbān), رَمَضَان‎ (ramaḍān), شَوَّال‎ (šawwāl), ذُو الْقَعْدَة‎ (ḏū l-qaʿda), ذُو الْحِجَّة‎ (ḏū l-ḥijja) ^{(Category: ar:Islamic months)}
• آب‎ (ʾāb)
• أَغُسْطُس‎ (ʾaḡusṭus)