Definition of Siwan

1. Noun. The ninth month of the civil year; the third month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in May and June).

Exact synonyms: Sivan
Group relationships: Hebrew Calendar, Jewish Calendar
Generic synonyms: Jewish Calendar Month

Lexicographical Neighbors of Siwan

Sitwell
Sitwellian
Sitzfleisch
Sium
Sium latifolium
Sium sisarum
Sium suave
Siva
Sivaism
Sivaist
Sivaists
Sivaite
Sivaites
Sivan
Sivapithecus
Siwan
Six-Day War
Six Counties
Six Day War
Six Nations
Sixsmith
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire
Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale
Sixth Commandment
Sixth Crusade
Siâny
Sjaelland
Sjogren's disease
Sjogren's syndrome
Sjoqvist tractotomy

Literary usage of Siwan

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

1. Harvard African Studies by African Dept (1917)
"siwan CUSTOMS DOCTOR MAHMUD MOHAMMAD 'Aso ALLAH Egyptian Medical Service • [In, wishing for further information on several points which had attracted my ..."

2. A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Otchipwe Language for the Use of by Frederic Baraga (1878)
"D, if I arrive, siwan, ... because I have siwan, arrived, or when I arrived, ... siwan, Etc., as above in the present tense, prefixing gi~, to the verb. ..."

3. Through Egypt in War-time by Martin Shaw Briggs (1918)
"From the leaves, too, are made the famous siwan baskets, used for all purposes by the ... In his official Report on the Oasis, Captain Stanley gives a siwan ..."

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