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Ram⋅a⋅dan

  [ram-uh-dahn]
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–noun Islam.
1. the ninth month of the Muslim calendar. Compare Muslim calendar.
2. the daily fast that is rigidly enjoined from dawn until sunset during this month.
Origin:
1590–1600; < Ar ramaḍān
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Ram·a·dan   (rām'ə-dän', rām'ə-dän')   
n.  

  1. The ninth month of the year in the Islamic calendar. See Table at calendar.

  2. A fast, held from sunrise to sunset, that is carried out during this period.


[Arabic Ramaḍān, from ramaḍ, dryness, from ramiḍa, to be scorched; see rm in Semitic roots.]
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Ramadan [(ram-uh-dahn)]

A holy month in Islam; the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. Devout Muslims fast between sunrise and sunset during each day of Ramadan.

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Ramadan 
"ninth month of the Muslim year," 1595, from Arabic Ramadan (Turk. and Pers. ramazan), originally "the hot month," from ramida "be burnt, scorched" (cf. Heb. remetz "hot ashes, embers"). Due to the Islamic lunar calendar, it passes through all seasons in a cycle of about 33 years, but evidently originally it was a summer month.
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