Translation for '
lunar year' from English to Dutch
NOUN | a lunar year | lunar years | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- In the book, Kak proposes that the organization of hymns in the Rig Veda was dictated by an astronomic code concerning the courses of planets—length of solar year and lunar year, the distance between sun and earth et al.
- The Hebrew lunar year is about 11 days shorter than the solar year and uses the 19-year Metonic cycle to bring it into line with the solar year, with the addition of an intercalary month every two or three years, for a total of seven times per 19 years.
- The lunar year comprises twelve full cycles of the phases of the Moon, as seen from Earth.
- To commemorate and signify their origin, every new lunar year all southern Khalkhas perform special Khangai Mountain worshipping ceremonies and they face northwest and pray.
- "Hatsuichi" marked the first market of the new lunar year.
- A lunar year contains about 354 11/30 days, Nizari Isma'ili employ a cycle of 11 leap years ("kasibah") with 355 days in a 30-year cycle.
- The symbols at U+19E0 and U+19F0 represent the first and second "eighth month" in a lunar year containing a leap-month (see Khmer calendar).
- The traditional lunar year of 12 synodic months is about 354 days, approximately 11 days short of the solar year.
- He fell ill that winter and died before the next lunar year.
- However, the tabular Islamic calendar used by Islamic astronomers during the Middle Ages and still used by some Muslims does have a regular leap day added to the last month of the lunar year in 11 years of a 30-year cycle.
- The lunar year begins with the new moon of the month of Chaitra.
- The determination of the first day of a new lunar year varies by culture.
- "Zakat" is obligatory after the money has been in the control of its owner for the span of one lunar year; a lunar year is approximately 355 days.
- 366 days and the lunar year of 354 [...] 355 days.
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