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Definition of Moharram
1. Noun. The first month of the Islamic calendar.
Group relationships: Islamic Calendar, Mohammedan Calendar, Moslem Calendar, Muhammadan Calendar, Muslim Calendar
Generic synonyms: Islamic Calendar Month
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moharram
Literary usage of Moharram
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fall of the Moghul Empire: An Historical Essay, Being a New Ed. of The by Henry George Keene (1876)
"Meanwhile the great ceremony of mourning for the sons of Ali* drew on; the
moharram, celebrated in Hindostan alike by the Shias, who venerate their memory, ..."
2. The Fall of the Moghul Empire: An Historical Essay by Henry George Keene (1876)
"Meanwhile the great ceremony of mourning for the sons of Ali* drew on; the
moharram, celebrated in Hindostan alike by the Shias, who venerate their memory, ..."
3. Studies in a Mosque by Stanley Lane-Poole (1893)
"IT is the beginning of the Mohammadan year, the sacred month moharram, ...
Still, the Persians keep their moharram after their own picturesque fashion. ..."
4. A Journal of Two Years' Travel in Persia, Ceylon, Etc by Robert B. M. Binning (1857)
"The moharram. HITHERTO I have said little or nothing regarding the fair sex in
this country; and though my knowledge of Persian ladies is merely information ..."
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