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Re: Afghan Calendar Project, Arabic month names in English?
- To: Development Discussions <developer at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: Afghan Calendar Project, Arabic month names in English?
- From: Youssef Chahibi <chahibi at gmail dot com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:42:32 +0000
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On Sunday 18 March 2007 08:46, afghancalendar at gmx dot net wrote:
> Regarding the English translation of the Arabic month names and their short
> cuts I would like to know what is their standard spelling? I oriented
> myself mainly on the spelling used by "hcal". Could you point me to some
> literature (e.g. a standard Arabic English dictionary) for citing?
There are different spellings depending on how Arabic is transliterated.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijri_calendar#Names_of_the_Islamic_months
for example or http://www.awalnet.com/English/Files/hijrical.asp .