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Definition of Noruz

1. Noun. (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.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Noruz

Literary usage of Noruz

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Persian Life and Customs: With Scenes and Incidents of Residence and Travel by Samuel Graham Wilson (1896)
"From 1893 to 1896 Noruz falls in the great fast of Ramadan. ... In the introduction to this story it is said: " Noruz, or the new day, is a festival so ..."

2. Sketches of Central Asia: Additional Chapters on My Travels, Adventures, and by Ármin Vámbéry (1868)
"Five days after the Noruz market comes the Noruz Mogan (New Year's Day of the priests of the fire-worshippers). ..."

3. History of Art in Persia by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1892)
"189), 1 With regard to the Noruz festivities, see GOBINEAU, Hist, des Perses, torn. i. pp. 108, 109. 9 Our illustration is after a photograph taken from the ..."

4. Persia by a Persian: Being Personal Experiences, Manners, Customs, Habits by Isaac Adams (1906)
"The greatest social event in Persia is the festival of New Year or (Noruz). This is the only festival of the Ancient Persia that has not been displaced by ..."

5. The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society by Manchester Geographical Society (1892)
"A similar condition influenced the naming of the two chief branches of the Nogai—those of Mansur and Noruz—for it has always been the custom among the Turks ..."

6. Travels in Central Asia: Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across by Ármin Vámbéry (1865)
"... at the festivals of the Kurban and the Noruz. The ulemas of Khiva do not stand in as high repute for learning as those of Bokhara, but they are far frpm ..."

7. A Geography and Atlas of Protestant Missions: Their Environment, Forces by Harlan Page Beach (1901)
"... called forth a remark from him that fish always look toward Mecca at Noruz. He placed before us a few candies, some boiled eggs and pickled grapes. ..."

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