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Magh

Magh \Magh\, n. The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.

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Magh (Bengali calendar)

Magh is the tenth month in the Bengali calendar. This is the last month of the winter season. This month is named after the star Môgha.

Magh (Sikh calendar)

Magh is the eleventh month of the Nanakshahi calendar, which governs the activities within Sikhism. This month coincides with January and February in the Gregorian and Julian calendars and is 30 days long.

Magh

Magh may refer to:

  • Magi, a term, used since at least the 4th century BC, to denote followers of Zoroaster, or rather, followers of what the Hellenistic world associated Zoroaster with, which was – in the main – the ability to read the stars, and manipulate the fate that the stars foretold
  • Magh people, the Arakanese nationalities known in Bengal as Maghs
  • Maagha, a month in Hindu calendar
  • Magh (Bengali calendar), the 10th month in the Bengali calendar. This is the last month of the winter season
  • Magh (Nepali calendar), the tenth month in Bikram Sambat or B.S., the official and Hindu religious calendar of Nepal. This month approximately coincides with January 15 to February 12 of the Gregorian (western) calendar and is 29 days long
  • Magh (Sikh calendar), the eleventh month of the Nanakshahi calendar, which governs the activities within Sikhism. This month coincides with January and February in the Gregorian and Julian calendars and is 30 days long
  • Magha (poet), author of Shishupala Vadha
  • Magh, Afghanistan, a village in Afghanistan
  • Magh, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
Magh (Nepali calendar)

Magh is the tenth month in Bikram Sambat or B.S., the official and Hindu religious calendar of Nepal. This month approximately coincides with January 15 to February 12 of the Gregorian (western) calendar and is 29 days long.

Important holidays:

  • Magh 1, Maghe Sankranti, also see Makar Sankranti
  • Magh 9, Basant Panchami
  • magh 16, Martyrs' day

Usage examples of "magh".

Sacrifices were made at the feast of Samhain on the plain of Magh Slecht.

Just seaward of center on this ancient plain, a mighty mound rose on what was called Magh Glondarth: The Plain of Deeds, for in times gone by many a battle had been fought on these acres.

Only a camp they had, on Magh na-Broin, where men traded with local citizens and entrepreneurs for food and drink.

The battle had been a shield-splitter and Magh Broin was a plain the ravens would long be croaking over.

Up on Magh Broin in the Boruma matter, and at Slieve Argait against the Picts, ye did distinction on yourself yet again, and in valour and in passing ability.

A tattered, patched cloak covered him to the eyebrows and he held it from within against the wind that drove the merchanter past Eirrin and onto Magh Rian.

As twilight descended over the land on the seventh day, we crested the last hill and saw the immense Magh Fal, the Plain of Fal, spread out like a table.

Celts who came so long ago to Eirrin: Crom Cruach, on the plain of Magh Slecht near Ballymagauran.

Dana Da was neither Finn, Chin, Bhil, Bengali, Lap, Nair, Gond, Romaney, Magh, Bokhariot, Kurd, Armenian, Levantine, Jew, Persian, Punjabi, Madrasi, Parsee, nor anything else known to ethnologists.