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Intercalated Calendar Vs Lunar
Some months have sepcifc names like jumada which means ‘dry’. So probably a hot season. So how could a lunar calendar make sense when the ‘dry’ season moves around the year? Wouldn’t it make more sense that an intercalated calendar would be used?
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Intercalated Calendar Vs Lunar
updated 4 years, 5 months ago
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Sorry for the typo- i meant lunar
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But does it make sense? Why would a calendar be called dry that could be in a wet season?
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Ideas?
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Rabi ul awwal means the first spring so how does it make sense that it occurs in the winter?
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Because it is no longer used in literal meaning and has become a proper name of a month which has no bearing on its literal meaning anymore. This is how language transforms as well, by losing one shade of a meaning and adopting another related shades on a permanent and isolated basis.
One example could be seen in how word ‘khalifa’ travelled through different shades and adopted those shades in a permanent and isolated meaning.
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I had a suspicion that it was something like this. Makes sense!
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