Meaning

1 senses
  1. A calendar that measures the passage of the year according to the phases of the moon, as opposed to the revolution of the earth around the sun; a calendar of the lunar year.

    Mondkalender, Lunarkalender

    лу́нный календа́рьlúnnyj kalendárʹ

    мі́сячний календа́рmísjačnyj kalendár

More definitions
  • a calendar based on lunar cycles

Examples

3 sentences
  1. In China, they celebrate New Year by the lunar calendar.

    ruВ Китае Новый год отмечается по лунному календарю. — marafon

  2. In China, they celebrate the New Year by the lunar calendar.

  3. Bon, an annual Buddhist event, is from July (or August on the lunar calendar) 13th to the 16th.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a calendar that measures the passage of the year according to the phases of the moon:
Русский
By meaning 1
a calendar that measures the passage of the year according to the phases of the moon:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a calendar that measures the passage of the year according to the phases of the moon:

Forms

plural: lunar calendars
Singularlunar calendar
Plurallunar calendars

regular

See also

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