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Nisan is the name of a month in the Jewish calendar.  Roughly corresponds to early spring.  Follows the month of Adar (or in leap years, Adar 2).
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* '''Nisan:''' the 7th month (8th in leap years) of the Jewish religious calendar and the 1st month of the Jewish civil calendar; it corresponds roughly to March-April in the Gregorian calendar; it is the month that follows Adar (or Adar II in leap years) → rains stop in Nisan
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisan Wikipedia]
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* '''nizam:''' (''Arabic'') order
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* '''Nizam:''' Nizam-al-Mulk, the title of the rulers of the Hyderabad State in the Indian Deccan from 1724-1949 → cf. '''Nizamaluco''', a Portuguese form of '''Nizam-al-Mulk'''
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizam Wikipedia]
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* '''Nizam al-Mulk:''' Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Tusi Nizam al-Mulk (1018-1092), Persian scholar and vizier of the Turkish Seljuq Empire
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizam_al-Mulk Wikipedia]

Latest revision as of 11:37, 24 October 2006

  • Nisan: the 7th month (8th in leap years) of the Jewish religious calendar and the 1st month of the Jewish civil calendar; it corresponds roughly to March-April in the Gregorian calendar; it is the month that follows Adar (or Adar II in leap years) → rains stop in Nisan
  • nizam: (Arabic) order
  • Nizam: Nizam-al-Mulk, the title of the rulers of the Hyderabad State in the Indian Deccan from 1724-1949 → cf. Nizamaluco, a Portuguese form of Nizam-al-Mulk
  • Nizam al-Mulk: Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Tusi Nizam al-Mulk (1018-1092), Persian scholar and vizier of the Turkish Seljuq Empire