Month

Noun

 * 1) A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon. In the Gregorian calendar there are twelve months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December.
 * July is my favourite month.
 * 1) A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.
 * We went on holiday for two months.
 * 1)  A woman's period; menstrual discharge.
 * 2) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, vol. I, New York 2001, p. 234:
 * Sckenkius hath two other instances of two melancholy and mad women, so caused from the suppression of their months.

Related terms

 * monthly
 * month of Sundays

Adjectives for Month
healing; memorable; sweet; dreary; anxious; withered; story-book; ensuing; tedious; corresponding; brief; silent; wintry; tempestuous; treacherous; stretched; gentle; much-abused; crabbed; meager.

Verbs for Month
attain in—; endure—; enjoy—; estimate —s; extend—; finish—; indicate—; mark—; pass—; remain—; spend—; survive—; tide over—; waste—; —elapses; —fades; —separates.

Thesaurus
abundant year, academic year, annum, bissextile year, calendar month, calendar year, century, common year, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, fiscal year, fortnight, hour, leap year, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, moon, quarter, quinquennium, regular year, second, semester, session, sidereal year, solar year, sun, term, trimester, twelvemonth, week, weekday, year

Etymology
Via <  monaþ: <  <, probably from , referring to the moon's phases as the measure of time. Cognate with English moon:, Ancient Greek μήν:, Armenian ամիս:, Dutch maand:, German Monat: (Middle High German manot:, Old High German manod:), Old Irish mí: and Old Church Slavonic ⰿⱖⱄⱔⱌⱐ:.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language:
 * Amuzgo: chi'
 * Arabic: شهر
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܝܪܚܐ (yarħā’)
 * Hebrew: ירחא (yarħā’)
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: hil, hilabete
 * Belarusian: месяц
 * Breton:, mizvezh
 * Bulgarian: <-- removed non-lemma:  -->
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Crimean Tatar: ay
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: dzinu, ɣleti
 * Faroese: mánaður
 * Finnish: ( when preceded by a modifier, e.g., ensi kuussa = next month)
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: મહિનો
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Inari Sami: mánuppaje
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 月
 * Kannada: ಮಾಸ (maasa), ತಿಂಗಳು (tingallu)
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmancî: meh, heyv, hîv
 * Soranî:


 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: mēnesis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Livonian: kū
 * Lower Sorbian: mjasec
 * Macedonian: месец
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: മാസം (māsam)
 * Maltese:
 * Manchu: biya
 * Maori: marama
 * Marathi: महिना (mahinā)
 * Navajo: ,
 * North Frisian:
 * Northern Sami: mánotbadji
 * Norwegian:
 * Ojibwe: giizis
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English:
 * Papiamentu:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: mais
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: mìos
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: месец,  мјесец
 * Roman: mesec,  mjesec
 * Skolt Sami: mään, määnpââ´jj
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: kgwedi
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: mwezi (nc 3/4)
 * Swedish:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: నెల (nela), మాసము (maasamu)
 * Thai: เดือน
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: місяць
 * Upper Sorbian: měsac
 * Urdu: مہینا, مہینہ
 * Vietnamese: tháng
 * Volapük: mul
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: חודש (khóydesh)