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The months in Arabic, from the CEFR-levelled Lock&Learn Arabic lists with romanizations and meanings. Arabic has three sets of month names in daily use, the two Gregorian sets of the east and west of the Arab world and the Hijri months of the Islamic calendar; the note above the list gives all three in order.
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Arabic has three sets of month names in daily use. Egypt, Sudan and the Gulf use names borrowed from the European months; Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Iraq use old Syriac names; and everywhere, religious dates and many calendars follow the twelve Hijri months of the Islamic lunar year, which fall about eleven days earlier each Gregorian year. (Tunisia and Algeria use French-derived forms such as جَانْفِي jānfī for January.)
| Month | Egypt and the Gulf | Levant and Iraq |
|---|---|---|
| January | يَنَايِر yanāyir | كَانُون الثَّانِي kānūn al-thānī |
| February | فِبْرَايِر fibrāyir | شُبَاط shubāṭ |
| March | مَارِس māris | آذَار ādhār |
| April | أَبْرِيل abrīl | نَيْسَان naysān |
| May | مَايُو māyū | أَيَّار ayyār |
| June | يُونْيُو yūnyū | حَزِيرَان ḥazīrān |
| July | يُولْيُو yūlyū | تَمُّوز tammūz |
| August | أَغُسْطُس aghusṭus | آب āb |
| September | سِبْتَمْبِر sibtambir | أَيْلُول aylūl |
| October | أُكْتُوبَر uktūbar | تِشْرِين الأَوَّل tishrīn al-awwal |
| November | نُوفَمْبِر nūfambir | تِشْرِين الثَّانِي tishrīn al-thānī |
| December | دِيسَمْبِر dīsambir | كَانُون الأَوَّل kānūn al-awwal |
The Hijri months, in order:
| Month | Arabic | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | مُحَرَّم | Muḥarram |
| 2 | صَفَر | Ṣafar |
| 3 | رَبِيع الأَوَّل | Rabīʿ al-Awwal |
| 4 | رَبِيع الآخِر | Rabīʿ al-Ākhir |
| 5 | جُمَادَى الأُولَى | Jumādā al-Ūlā |
| 6 | جُمَادَى الآخِرَة | Jumādā al-Ākhira |
| 7 | رَجَب | Rajab |
| 8 | شَعْبَان | Shaʿbān |
| 9 | رَمَضَان | Ramaḍān |
| 10 | شَوَّال | Shawwāl |
| 11 | ذُو القَعْدَة | Dhū al-Qaʿda |
| 12 | ذُو الحِجَّة | Dhū al-Ḥijja |
| Arabic | Romanization | Meaning | Level | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| أَبْرِيل | abrīl | April | A1 | أَبْرِيل شَهْرٌ جَمِيلٌ.Abrīl shahrun jamīlun.April is a beautiful month. |
| أَغُسْطُس | aghusṭus | month of August | A1 | أَغُسْطُسُ شَهْرٌ حَارٌّ.Aghusṭusu shahrun ḥārrun.August is a hot month. |
| أُكْتُوبَر | uktūbar | October | A1 | عِيدُ مِيلَادِي فِي شَهْرِ أُكْتُوبَرَ.ʿĪdu mīlādī fī shahri uktūbara.My birthday is in October. |
| دِيسَمْبِر | dīsambir | month of december | A1 | عِيدُ مِيلادِي فِي دِيسَمْبِرَ.ʿĪdu mīlādī fī dīsambira.My birthday is in December. |
| سِبْتَمْبَر | sibtambar | September | A1 | سَيُعْقَدُ الِاجْتِمَاعُ فِي سِبْتَمْبَر.Sayuʿqadu al-ājtimāʿu fī sibtambar.The meeting will be held in September. |
| شَهْر | shahr | month | A1 | هَذا شَهْرٌ جَدِيدٌ.Hadhā shahrun jadīdun.This is a new month. |
| فِبْرايِر | fibrāyir | the month february | A1 | وُلِدْتُ فِي فِبْرايِر.Wulidtu fī fibrāyir.I was born in February. |
| مارِس | māris | the month March | A1 | أُسَافِرُ فِي شَهْرِ مَارِسَ.Usāfiru fī shahri mārisa.I travel in March. |
| مايُو | māyū | the month may | A1 | رِحْلَتِي فِي شَهْرِ مَايُو.Riḥlatī fī shahri māyū.My trip is in May. |
| نُوفِمْبِر | nūfimbir | november | A1 | سَأُسَافِرُ فِي شَهْرِ نُوفِمْبِر.Saʾusāfiru fī shahri nūfimbir.I will travel in November. |
| يَنايِر | yanāyir | January | A1 | يَبدَأُ عامِي فِي يَنايِرَ.Yabdaʾu ʿāmī fī yanāyira.My year begins in January. |
| يُولِيُو | yūliyū | the month July | A1 | عِيدُ مِيلاَدِي فِي يُولِيُو.ʿĪdu mīladī fī yūliyū.My birthday is in July. |
| يُونِيُو | yūniyū | the month June | A1 | يُونِيُو هُوَ شَهْرٌ جَمِيلٌ.Yūniyū huwa shahrun jamīlun.June is a beautiful month. |
| حَزِيران | ḥazīrān | June | A1 | سَافَرْنَا فِي شَهْرِ حَزِيرَانَ.Sāfarnā fī shahri ḥazīrāna.We traveled in the month of June. |
| آذار | ādhār | March | A2 | |
| أَيّار | ayyār | May (the month) | A2 | |
| أَيْلُول | aylūl | september | A2 | |
| تِشْرِين | tishrīn | October | A2 | |
| تَمُّوز | tammūz | the month of July | A2 | |
| رَمَضان | ramaḍān | the month Ramadan | A2 | |
| شُباط | shubāṭ | the month of february | A2 | |
| نِيسان | nīsān | april | A2 |
Words from the Lock&Learn Arabic deck, built on the Arabic CEFR-classified word list of Khallaf and Sharoff (2021). Definitions adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vowel marks are shown in full and the romanization is generated; example sentences are original Lock&Learn content.
It depends on the country. Egypt and the Gulf say yanāyir, fibrāyir, māris and so on; Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Iraq say kānūn al-thānī, shubāṭ, ādhār; and the Hijri calendar runs from Muḥarram to Dhū al-Ḥijja, with Ramaḍān the ninth month. The note above the list gives all three sets, and the table the 22 month words on the CEFR-levelled Lock&Learn Arabic lists.
14 from A1, 8 from A2. The level chip on each row says where the word sits, so you can stop at your level or read ahead. Beginner-level words carry a real example sentence; the rest show word, romanization and meaning, with their sentences in the app.
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