Definition of Moharram

1. Noun. The first month of the Islamic calendar.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Moharram

Mohammad
Mohammadanism
Mohammed
Mohammed Ali
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
Mohammedan
Mohammedan calendar
Mohammedanism
Mohammedanize
Mohammedanized
Mohammedanizing
Mohammedans
Mohammedism
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Moharram
Mohave
Mohave Desert
Mohawk
Mohawk River
Mohawks
Mohel
Mohican
Mohican haircut
Mohicans
Mohism
Moho
Moho discontinuity
Mohock
Mohocks

Literary usage of Moharram

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Fall of the Moghul Empire: An Historical Essay, Being a New Ed. of The by Henry George Keene (1876)
"Meanwhile the great ceremony of mourning for the sons of Ali* drew on; the moharram, celebrated in Hindostan alike by the Shias, who venerate their memory, ..."

2. The Fall of the Moghul Empire: An Historical Essay by Henry George Keene (1876)
"Meanwhile the great ceremony of mourning for the sons of Ali* drew on; the moharram, celebrated in Hindostan alike by the Shias, who venerate their memory, ..."

3. Studies in a Mosque by Stanley Lane-Poole (1893)
"IT is the beginning of the Mohammadan year, the sacred month moharram, ... Still, the Persians keep their moharram after their own picturesque fashion. ..."

4. A Journal of Two Years' Travel in Persia, Ceylon, Etc by Robert B. M. Binning (1857)
"The moharram. HITHERTO I have said little or nothing regarding the fair sex in this country; and though my knowledge of Persian ladies is merely information ..."

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