شَهْر

$ahorN * The new moon, when it appears: (IF, A, Mgh, O, Msb, K:) so called because of its conspicuousness. (Mgh, Msb.) This is the original signification. (Mgh.) [See the last sentence of this paragraph.] You say, raA^ayotu Al$~ahora , meaning I saw the new moon of the month. (Mgh.) Hence it is said in a trad., SuwmuwA Al$~ahora , meaning Fast ye the first day of the lunar month. (Lh, TA.) And hence the trad., A_in~amaA Al$~ahoru tisoEN waEi$oruwna , meaning The utility of watching for the new moon is on the nine and twentieth night. (L, TA.) [Or the meaning is, that the lunar month is a period of nine and twenty nights.] ― -b2- Also The moon: or the moon when conspicuous, and near to being full. (K.) ― -b3- And [A lunar month; ] a certain well-known number of days: so called because made manifest by the moon: (ISd, K:) an arabicized word; or, as some say, Arabic; (Msb;) and so called because of its being manifest: (Msb, TA:) pl. [of pauc.] A^a$ohurN (Msb, K) and [of mult.] $uhuwrN . (S, Msb, K.) The following are the modern names of the months: 1. AlmuHar~amu [to which the epithet AlHaraAmu is often added]: 2. SafarN [to which the epithet Alxayoru is often added]: 3. rabiyEN AlA^aw~alu : 4. rabiyEN AlA=xiru [or Alv~aAniY ]: 5. jumaAdaY AlA^uwlaY : 6. jumaAdaY AlA=xirapu [or Alv~aAniyapu ]: 7. rajabN [to which is often added the epithet AlA^aSam~u , and that of Alfarodu ]: 8. $aEobaAnu [to which we often find the epithet AlmuEaZ~amu added, and sometimes that of Al$~ariyfu ]: 9. ramaDaAnu [to which the epithet AlmubaAraku is appropriated]: 10. $aw~aAlN [to which the epithet Almukar~amu is frequently added]: 11. *uw AlqaEodapi : and 12. *uw AlHij~api : [see the second of the two tables in p. 1254:] and the following are the names by which they were called by the tribe of 'Ád, agreeably with the foregoing numeration: 1. muw^otamirN : 2. naAjirN : 3. xaw~aAnN : 4. buS~aAnN [q. v.]: 5. rub~aY : 6. HaniynN : 7. AlA^aSam~u : 8. EaA*ilN : 9. naAtiqN : 10. waEolN : 11. waronapu : and 12. burakN [or buraku ?]. (Ibn-El-Kelbee, in TA, voce muw^otamirN . [But authors differ respecting some of these names, as will be seen in other articles.]) A^a$ohurN maEoluwmaAtN , said, in the Kur [ii. 193], to be the period of the pilgrimage, for by AlHaj~u , which immediately precedes, is meant waqotu AlHaj~i , (Mgh, Msb,) or zamaAnu AlHaj~i , (Msb,) applies to Showwál and Dhul-Kaadeh and ten days of Dhu-l-Hijjeh, (Mgh, Msb,) accord. to Aboo-Haneefeh (Mgh) and most of the learned, part of Dhu-l-Hijjeh being called a month tropically, as is often done by the Arabs in similar cases, relating to time; for ex. when they say, maA raA^ayotuhu mu*o yawomaAni , the period of separation having been a day and a part of a day: (Msb:) or [ and ] nine days of Dhu-l-Hijjeh with the night preceding the day of the sacrifice, accord. to Esh-Sháfi'ee: (Mgh:) or [ and ] all Dhu-l-Hijjeh, accord. to Málik: (Mgh, Msb:) [in these two explanations the two months next preceding being meant to be included:] or Showwál and Dhu-l- Kaadeh and Dhu-l-Hijjeh and Moharram, accord. to Aboo-'Amr Esh-Shaabee. (Msb.) ― -b4- Also (assumed tropical:) A learned man: (O, K:) [because of his celebrity:] pl. $uhuwrN . (O, TA.) ― -b5- [And accord. to the K, it signifies also The like of a nail-paring: but this is app. a mistake, perhaps originating from a mutilated transcript of what here follows:] a poet says, describing camels, A^abodaA^ona mino najodK EalaY viqapK waAl$~ahoru mivolu qulaAmapi AlZ~ufori [ They went forth from Nejd in a state of confidence, the new moon being like the nail-paring ]. (O.)