Crossword clues for ramadan
ramadan
- Islamic holy month
- Islamic fasting period
- Fast month, for some
- Sacred Islamic month
- Muslim period of fasting
- Muslim month of fasting
- Muslim calendar month
- Moslem holy month
- Month during which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset
- Month before Shawwal
- Lent relative
- Islamic month (of fasting)
- Islam's holiest month
- Fast time in Islam?
- Fast time in Fallujah
- Fast time for some
- Fast time for many
- Fast time for 600,000 New Yorkers
- Fast month?
- Fast month for Muslims
- 29-day month in 2011
- Fast time in Mecca
- It comes between Shaban and Shawwal
- Month-long Islamic observance
- Period between Shaban and Shawwal
- Muslim holy month
- The ninth month of the Moslem calendar
- Moslem fasting period
- Riyadh fasting period
- Islamic month or fast
- Islamic fasting month
- Fasting time for Moslems
- Mohammedan month
- Ninth Islamic month
- Month of fasting
- Stuff a martial arts expert does for a month
- Fasting month
- Fast hit by a karate expert
- Fasting period
- Period of fasting ended by Eid al-Fitr
- Muslim fast
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ramadan \Ram`a*dan"\ (r[a^]m`[.a]*d[a^]n"), n. [Ar. rama[dsdot][=a]n, or ramaz[=a]n, properly, the hot month.]
The ninth Mohammedan month.
The great annual fast of the Mohammedans, kept during daylight through the ninth month.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ninth month of the Muslim year, 1590s, from Arabic Ramadan (Turkish and Persian ramazan), originally "the hot month," from ramida "be burnt, scorched" (compare Mishnaic Hebrew remetz "hot ashes, embers"). In the Islamic lunar calendar, it passes through all seasons in a cycle of about 33 years, but evidently originally it was a summer month.
Wikipedia
Ramadan (; , ; also romanized as Ramazan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, and is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad according to Islamic belief. This annual observance is regarded as one of the Five Pillars of Islam. The month lasts 29–30 days based on the visual sightings of the crescent moon, according to numerous biographical accounts compiled in the hadiths.
The word Ramadan comes from the Arabic root ramiḍa or ar-ramaḍ, which means scorching heat or dryness. Fasting is fardh (obligatory) for adult Muslims, except those who are suffering from an illness, travelling, are elderly, pregnant, breastfeeding, diabetic or going through menstrual bleeding. Fasting the month of Ramadan was made obligatory (wājib) during the month of Sha'aban, in the second year after the Muslims migrated from Mecca to Medina. Fatwas have been issued declaring that Muslims who live in regions with a natural phenomenon such as the midnight sun or polar night should follow the timetable of Mecca.
While fasting from dawn until sunset, Muslims refrain from consuming food, drinking liquids, smoking, and engaging in sexual relations. Muslims are also instructed to refrain from sinful behavior that may negate the reward of fasting, such as false speech (insulting, backbiting, cursing, lying, etc.) and fighting. Food and drinks are served daily, before dawn and after sunset. Spiritual rewards ( thawab) for fasting are also believed to be multiplied within the month of Ramadan. Fasting for Muslims during Ramadan typically includes the increased offering of salat (prayers) and recitation of the Quran.
Ramadan ( Arabic: ) or Ramadhan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, and the month in which the Quran was revealed.
Fasting during the month of Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. The month is spent by Muslims fasting during the daylight hours from dawn to sunset. According to Islam, the Quran was sent down to the lowest heaven during this month, thus being prepared for gradual revelation by Jibreel ( Gabriel) to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Therefore, Muhammad told his followers that the gates of Heaven would be open for the entire month and the gates of Hell ( Jahannam) would be closed. The first day of the next month, Shawwal, is spent in celebration and is observed as the "Festival of Breaking Fast" or Eid al-Fitr .
Ramadan can refer to:
- Ramadan, the Muslim religious observance
- Ramadan (calendar month)
- a minor Kazakh Jüz "horde", numbering ca. 5,000
- Ramadan, Iran, a village in Iran
Usage examples of "ramadan".
Easter, Ramadan, Chanukah, and all the other festivals and observances of mankind were scheduled to fit whatever time system was adopted.
Bulletins from Party Headquarters are spelled out in obscene charades by hebephrenics and Latahs and apes, Sollubis fart code, Negroes open and shut mouth to Hash messages on gold teeth, Arab rioters send smoke signals by throwing great buttery eunuchs -- they make the best smoke, hangs black and shit-solid in the air -- onto gasoline fires in a rubbish heap, mosaic of melodies, sad Panpipes of humpbacked beggar, cold wind sweeps down from post card of Chimborazzi, flutes of Ramadan, piano music down a windy street, mutilated police calls, advertising leaflet synchronize with street fight spell SOS.
Id al Fitr, the festival of breaking the fast, which celebrates the end of Ramadan on the first of Shawwal, the tenth month.
Ramadan gasped as he looked out across a vast empty space, the valley of the Ume, only a handbreadth from where Marta was lying.
Inspector Hamnes shouted as Ramadan clomped back into the command center.
Buskerud, Colonel Ramadan, and I will coordinate your deployments from here.
Brigadier Sparen and Colonel Ramadan answered that their Raptors were ready to launch and their missile guidance systems were already locked in.
Van Winkle and the two sergeants major were on their feet and crowding in to offer congratulations Ramadan hovered behind them, trying to find space to squeeze in to add his own.
Queequeg, taking a prodigiously hearty breakfast of chowders of all sorts, so that the landlady should not make much profit by reason of his Ramadan, we sallied out to board the Pequod, sauntering along, and picking our teeth with halibut bones.
I remembered the three-cornered zambusi that are made to break the fast during the month of Ramadan and sweet tea with cardamom and milk.
The Lesser Festival of Bairam, which follows the fasting of Ramadan, was being celebrated with visits of ceremony and the giving of gifts.
In the revolution of the lunar year, the Ramadan coincides, by turns, with the winter cold and the summer heat.
In the revolution of the lunar year, the Ramadan coincides, by turns, with the winter cold and the summer heat.
Those were three of Islam's Five Pillars, to which he could add a fourth --the Christian Lent wasn't so terribly different from the Islamic Ramadan.
He could complain authoritatively about the lonelinessof a stranger in Athens during the Eleusyian Mysteries, in ancient Baghdadduring Ramadan, in Rome at Saturnalia, in China at New Year, in the Cave of theOld Ones at the Feast of the Great Bear .