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 Translation for 'lunar month' from English to French
NOUN   a lunar month | lunar months
SYNO lunar month | lunation | moon | ...
astron.
mois {m} lunaire
lunar month
Partial Matches
lunaire {adj}lunar
paysage {m} lunairelunar landscape
astronau
orbiteur {m} lunaire
lunar orbiter
astronau
alunissage {m}
lunar landing
astron.
calendrier {m} lunaire
lunar calendar
astron.
éclipse {f} lunaire
lunar eclipse
ichtyo.T
mérou {m} croissant jaune [Variola louti]
lunar-tailed rock-cod
mois {m}month
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tous le mois {adv}every month
il y a un mois {adv}a month ago
le mois avant {adv}the month before
écart {m} de six moissix-month interval
alim.pharm.
se garder un mois [se conserver]
to keep for a month
Le 15 du mois courant.The 15th of this month.
préciser le quantième du moisto specify which day of the month
dans le courant du mois {adv}in the course of the month
depuis des lustres {adv} [fam.] [loc.]in a month of Sundays [coll.] [idiom]
dans la deuxième quinzaine du mois {adv}in the second half of the month
Aux calendes grecques ! [fam.]Never in a month of Sundays! [coll.]
fin.
échéance {f} fin courant
due (date) at the end of the month
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Usage Examples English
  • On the 19th day of the sixth lunar month, Guanyin's attainment of Buddhahood is celebrated.
  • Karaites use the lunar month and the solar year, but the Karaite calendar differs from the current Rabbinic calendar in a number of ways.
  • Therefore, in those lunar calendars in which each month begins on the day of the new moon, the full moon falls on either the 14th or 15th day of the lunar month.
  • Easter was henceforward to be a Sunday in a lunar month chosen according to Christian criteria—in effect, a Christian Nisan—not in the month of Nisan as defined by Jews.
  • Since the ecclesiastical new moon falls on a date from 8 March to 5 April inclusive, the paschal full moon (the 14th of that lunar month) must fall on a date from 22 March to 18 April inclusive.

  • The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units such as the day, the lunar month and the year.
  • During the Second Temple period, there was a Jewish custom to make a public proclamation on the first day of the lunar month Adar, reminding the people that they are to prepare their annual monetary offering to the Temple treasury, known as the half-Shekel.
  • 10:129-1, 10:129-6" The people of Mithila (modern Darbhanga in North Bihar) ascribe the foundation of Nyaya philosophy to Gautama, husband of Ahalya, and point out as the place of his birth a village named Gautamasthana where a fair is held every year on the 9th day of the lunar month of Chaitra (March-April).
  • Chen was born to an impoverished tenant farming family of Zhao'an Bân-lâm ethnicity in Koaⁿ-tiān Township of Tainan County (now part of Tainan City) on the second day of the ninth lunar month in 1950 but was not formally issued a birth certificate until February 18, 1951, because of doubts that he would survive.
  • Because the length of the lunar month is not an even fraction of the length of the tropical year, a purely lunar calendar quickly drifts against the seasons, which do not vary much near the equator.

  • The Jewish calendar is also essentially lunar, except that an intercalary lunar month is added once every two or three years, in order to keep the calendar synchronized with the solar cycle as well.
  • In humans, the menstrual cycle lasts roughly a lunar month, an even multiple of the tidal period.
  • King Shaka was born in the lunar month of "uNtulikazi" (July) in the year of 1787 in Southern Africa near present-day Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal Province, the son of the Zulu King Senzangakhona kaJama.
  • The Sinhalese calendar is the Buddhist calendar in Sri Lanka with Sinhala names. Each full moon Poya day marks the start of a Buddhist lunar month. The first month is Bak.
  • H in the lunar month of Dhul-Qa'dah, at the age of eighty-nine.

  • The "Oxen's Festival" was celebrated on the eighth day of the third lunar month every year.
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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