Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Months of the year - mâh-ha-ye sâl

A little reminder of the names and sequence of the persian seasons
... bahâr - tâbestân - pâ'iz - zemestân ...

persian months
... farvardin - ordibehesht - khordâd - tir - mordâd - shahrivar - mehr - âbân - âzar - dey - bahman - esfand ...

and the days (in ancient times, every day of a month had a name)
... shanbeh - doshanbeh - seshanbeh - tchahârshanbeh - pandjshanbeh - djom'eh ...

The persian solar calendar starts from the spring equinox around March 20th. For more details see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_calendar

To convert a date from one calendar to another
Persian calendar converter
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