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month

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • mŭnth
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1

noun

Meaning 1

A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • July is my favourite month.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Holonyms: bimester < trimester < quadrimester < semester < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
  • Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight
  • We went on holiday for two months.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A woman's period; menstrual discharge.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: in-plural, obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

a time unit of approximately 30 days

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he was given a month to pay the bill

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: time unit, unit of time

Narrower terms: lunar month, moon, lunation, synodic month, anomalistic month, sidereal month, solar month

5

noun

Meaning 5

one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he paid the bill last month

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: calendar month

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: time period, period of time, period

Narrower terms: date, Revolutionary calendar month, Gregorian calendar month, Jewish calendar month, Islamic calendar month, Hindu calendar month

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh1-? Proto-Indo-European *mḗh1n̥sder. Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ Old English mōnaþ Middle English mon(e)th English month From Middle English mon(e)th, from Old English mōnaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh1n̥s (“moon, month”), probably derived from *meh1- (“measure”) with moon-cycles being used to measure time. Related to moon. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Mound (“month”), Dutch maand (“month”), German Low German Maand (“month”), German Monat (“month”), Danish måned (“month”), Swedish månad (“month”), Icelandic mánuður (“month”). Eclipsed non-native Old English calend (“month”), borrowed from Latin calendae.

Across languages

Translations

287 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abkhaz: амза (amza) — period into which a year is divided
  • Afrikaans: maand — period into which a year is divided
  • Akan: abosome — period into which a year is divided
  • Albanian: muaj — period into which a year is divided
  • Southern Altai: ай (ay) — period into which a year is divided
  • Amharic: ወር (wär) — period into which a year is divided
  • Guerrero Amuzgo: chi' — period into which a year is divided
  • Arabic: شَهْر (šahr) — period into which a year is divided
  • Arabic: شهر (šahr) — period into which a year is divided
  • Arabic: شهر (šahar) — period into which a year is divided
  • Arabic: شهر (šahar) — period into which a year is divided
  • Arabic: شهر (šhar) — period into which a year is divided
  • Arabic: شهر (šáher) — period into which a year is divided
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܲܪܚܵܐ (yārḳa) — period into which a year is divided
  • Aramaic: ܝܪܚܐ (yarḥā) — period into which a year is divided
  • Aramaic: יַרְחָא (yarḥā) — period into which a year is divided
  • Armenian: ամիս (amis) — period into which a year is divided
  • Old Armenian: ամիս (amis) — period into which a year is divided
  • Aromanian: mes (roa-rup) — period into which a year is divided
  • Aromanian: lunã — period into which a year is divided
  • Assamese: মাহ (mah) — period into which a year is divided
  • Asturian: mes — period into which a year is divided
  • Avar: моцӏ (mocʼ) — period into which a year is divided
  • Azerbaijani: ay — period into which a year is divided
  • Balinese: bulan — period into which a year is divided
  • Balinese: sasi — period into which a year is divided
  • Baluchi: ماہ (máh) — period into which a year is divided
  • Bashkir: ай (ay) — period into which a year is divided
  • Basque: hil — period into which a year is divided
  • Basque: hilabete — period into which a year is divided
  • Belarusian: ме́сяц (mjésjac) — period into which a year is divided
  • Bengali: মাস (maś) — period into which a year is divided
  • Bengali: মাহ (maho) — period into which a year is divided
  • Central Bikol: bulan — period into which a year is divided
  • Bouyei: ndianl — period into which a year is divided
  • Breton: miz — period into which a year is divided
  • Breton: mizvezh — period into which a year is divided
  • Bulgarian: ме́сец (mésec) — period into which a year is divided
  • Burmese: လ (la.) — period into which a year is divided
  • Buryat: һара (hara) — period into which a year is divided
  • Carpathian Rusyn: мі́сяць (mísjacʹ) — period into which a year is divided
  • Catalan: mes — period into which a year is divided
  • Cebuano: bulan — period into which a year is divided
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵢⵓⵔ (yur) — period into which a year is divided
  • Chamorro: pulan — period into which a year is divided
  • Chechen: бутт (butt) — period into which a year is divided
  • Cherokee: ᏏᏅᏙ (sinvdo) — period into which a year is divided
  • Cherokee: ᎧᎸᎢ (kalvi) — period into which a year is divided
  • Chichewa: mwezi — period into which a year is divided
  • Chinese Cantonese: 月 (jyut6) — period into which a year is divided
  • Chinese: йүә (yüə) — period into which a year is divided
  • Chinese: 月 (zh-min-nan) — period into which a year is divided
  • Chinese Mandarin: 月 (yuè) — period into which a year is divided
  • Chinese Mandarin: 月份 (yuèfèn) — period into which a year is divided
  • Chuvash: уйӑх (ujăh) — period into which a year is divided
  • East Circassian: мазэ (mazɛ) — period into which a year is divided
  • West Circassian: мазэ (mazɛ) — period into which a year is divided
  • Coptic: ⲁⲃⲟⲧ (ɑouːt) — period into which a year is divided
  • Coptic: ⲉⲃⲟⲧ (aouːt) — period into which a year is divided
  • Coptic: ⲁⲃⲏⲧ (ɑouat) — period into which a year is divided
  • Coptic: ⲉⲃⲁⲧⲉ (aouɑda) — period into which a year is divided
  • Cornish: mis — period into which a year is divided
  • Corsican: mese — period into which a year is divided
  • Crimean Tatar: ay — period into which a year is divided
  • Czech: měsíc — period into which a year is divided
  • Dalmatian: mais — period into which a year is divided
  • Danish: måned — period into which a year is divided
  • Central Dusun: wulan — period into which a year is divided
  • Dutch: maand — period into which a year is divided
  • Erzya: ков (kov) — period into which a year is divided
  • Esperanto: monato — period into which a year is divided
  • Estonian: kuu — period into which a year is divided
  • Ewe: dzinu — period into which a year is divided
  • Ewe: ɣleti — period into which a year is divided
  • Faroese: mánaður — period into which a year is divided
  • Finnish: kuukausi — period into which a year is divided
  • Finnish: kuu — period into which a year is divided
  • French: mois — period into which a year is divided
  • North Frisian: moune — period into which a year is divided
  • North Frisian: muun — period into which a year is divided
  • Saterland Frisian: Mound — period into which a year is divided
  • West-Frisian: moanne — period into which a year is divided
  • Friulian: mês — period into which a year is divided
  • Galician: mes — period into which a year is divided
  • Georgian: თვე (tve) — period into which a year is divided
  • German: Monat — period into which a year is divided
  • Godoberi: пурццу — period into which a year is divided
  • Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐌽𐍉𐌸𐍃 (mēnōþs) — period into which a year is divided
  • Greek: μήνας (mínas) — period into which a year is divided
  • Ancient Greek: μήν (mḗn) — period into which a year is divided
  • Mycenaean Greek: 𐂵 (LUNA) — period into which a year is divided
  • Gujarati: મહિનો (mahino) — period into which a year is divided
  • Haitian Creole: mwa — period into which a year is divided
  • Hausa: wata — period into which a year is divided
  • Hawaiian: mahina — period into which a year is divided
  • Hebrew: חֹדֶשׁ (khódesh) — period into which a year is divided
  • Hiligaynon: bulan — period into which a year is divided
  • Hindi: महीना (mahīnā) — period into which a year is divided
  • Hindi: मास (mās) — period into which a year is divided
  • Hindi: माह (māh) — period into which a year is divided
  • White Hmong: hli — period into which a year is divided
  • Hungarian: hónap — period into which a year is divided
  • Icelandic: mánuður — period into which a year is divided
  • Ido: monato — period into which a year is divided
  • Ilocano: bulan — period into which a year is divided
  • Indonesian: bulan — period into which a year is divided
  • Ingrian: kuu — period into which a year is divided
  • Ingrian: kuukaus — period into which a year is divided
  • Ingush: бутт (butt) — period into which a year is divided
  • Interlingua: mense — period into which a year is divided
  • Inuktitut: ᑕᖅᕿᖅ (taqqiq) — period into which a year is divided
  • Irish: mí — period into which a year is divided
  • Istriot: miz — period into which a year is divided
  • Italian: mese — period into which a year is divided
  • Japanese: 月 (tsuki) — period into which a year is divided
  • Japanese: 月間 (gekkan) — period into which a year is divided
  • Javanese: sasi — period into which a year is divided
  • Kabyle: ayyur — period into which a year is divided
  • Kaitag: бацц (bacc) — period into which a year is divided
  • Kalasha: mastrúk — period into which a year is divided
  • Kalmyk: сар (sar) — period into which a year is divided
  • Kannada: ಮಾಸ (māsa) — period into which a year is divided
  • Kannada: ತಿಂಗಳು (tiṅgaḷu) — period into which a year is divided
  • Kaqchikel: ikʼ — period into which a year is divided
  • Karelian: kuu — period into which a year is divided
  • Pa'o Karen: လာ — period into which a year is divided
  • S'gaw Karen: လါ (lah) — period into which a year is divided
  • Kashmiri: رؠتھ (ryath) — period into which a year is divided
  • Kashubian: miesąc — period into which a year is divided
  • Kazakh: ай (ai) — period into which a year is divided
  • Eastern Khanty: тыԓәс (tyłəs) — period into which a year is divided
  • Khmer: ខែ (khae) — period into which a year is divided
  • Khmu: ເນື່ອນ — period into which a year is divided
  • Kikuyu: mweri — period into which a year is divided
  • Korean: 달 (dal) — period into which a year is divided
  • Korean: 월 (wol) — period into which a year is divided
  • Korean: 월간 (wolgan) — period into which a year is divided
  • Central Kurdish: مانگ (mang) — period into which a year is divided
  • Northern Kurdish: meh — period into which a year is divided
  • Northern Kurdish: heyv — period into which a year is divided
  • Northern Kurdish: hîv — period into which a year is divided
  • Kyrgyz: ай (ay) — period into which a year is divided
  • Ladin: meis — period into which a year is divided
  • Ladin: mens — period into which a year is divided
  • Ladin: mëns — period into which a year is divided
  • Lao: ເດືອນ (dư̄an) — period into which a year is divided
  • Latin: mensis — period into which a year is divided
  • Latvian: mēnesis — period into which a year is divided
  • Lezgi: варз (varz) — period into which a year is divided
  • Ligurian: méize — period into which a year is divided
  • Lithuanian: mėnuo — period into which a year is divided
  • Livonian: kū — period into which a year is divided
  • Lombard: mes — period into which a year is divided
  • Low German: Maand — period into which a year is divided
  • Low German: Monat — period into which a year is divided
  • Luganda: omweezi — period into which a year is divided
  • Luxembourgish: Mount — period into which a year is divided
  • Macedonian: месец (mesec) — period into which a year is divided
  • Malay: bulan — period into which a year is divided
  • Malay: purnama — period into which a year is divided
  • Brunei Malay: bulan — period into which a year is divided
  • Malayalam: മാസം (māsaṁ) — period into which a year is divided
  • Malecite-Passamaquoddy: kisuhs — period into which a year is divided
  • Maltese: xahar — period into which a year is divided
  • Manchu: ᠪᡳᠶᠠ (biya) — period into which a year is divided
  • Manipuri: ꯊꯥ (thā) — period into which a year is divided
  • Māori: marama — period into which a year is divided
  • Maranao: bolan — period into which a year is divided
  • Marathi: महिना (mahinā) — period into which a year is divided
  • Western Mari: тӹлзӹ (tÿlzÿ) — period into which a year is divided
  • Marshallese: allōn̄ — period into which a year is divided
  • Mauritian Creole: mwa — period into which a year is divided
  • Megleno-Romanian: mes — period into which a year is divided
  • Middle English: moneth — period into which a year is divided
  • Mongolian: сар (sar) — period into which a year is divided
  • Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠷᠠ (sara) — period into which a year is divided
  • Mwani: mwezi — period into which a year is divided
  • Classical Nahuatl: mētztli — period into which a year is divided
  • Nandi: arawa — period into which a year is divided
  • Navajo: náhidizídígíí — period into which a year is divided
  • Navajo: náhidizííd — period into which a year is divided
  • Navajo: yiził — period into which a year is divided
  • Nepali: महिना (mahinā) — period into which a year is divided
  • Norman: mais — period into which a year is divided
  • Norwegian Bokmål: måned — period into which a year is divided
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: månad — period into which a year is divided
  • Occitan: mes — period into which a year is divided
  • Odia: ମାସ (māsa) — period into which a year is divided
  • Southern Ohlone: hemetscha char — period into which a year is divided
  • Ojibwe: giizis — period into which a year is divided
  • Church Slavic: мѣсѧць (měsęcĭ) — period into which a year is divided
  • Old East Slavic: мѣсѧць (měsęcĭ) — period into which a year is divided
  • Old English: mōnaþ — period into which a year is divided
  • Oromo: baatii — period into which a year is divided
  • Ossetian: мӕй (mæj) — period into which a year is divided
  • Pannonian Rusyn: мешац (mešac) — period into which a year is divided
  • Papiamentu: luna — period into which a year is divided
  • Pashto: مياشت (myāšt) — period into which a year is divided
  • Pela: la̠35 — period into which a year is divided
  • Pela: lɛ̠̃35ma31 — period into which a year is divided
  • Dari: مَاه (māh) — period into which a year is divided
  • Iranian Persian: ماه (mâh) — period into which a year is divided
  • Pipil: metzti — period into which a year is divided
  • Plautdietsch: Moonat — period into which a year is divided
  • Polish: miesiąc — period into which a year is divided
  • Portuguese: mês — period into which a year is divided
  • Punjabi: ਮਾਹ (māh) — period into which a year is divided
  • Punjabi: ਮਹੀਨਾ (mahīnā) — period into which a year is divided
  • Punjabi: ਮਾਸ (mās) — period into which a year is divided
  • Punjabi: مَان٘ہہ m مَہِینَہ (māṉh) — period into which a year is divided
  • Punjabi: مَاہ (māh) — period into which a year is divided
  • Punjabi: مَاس (mās) — period into which a year is divided
  • Rapa Nui: 'āva'e — period into which a year is divided
  • Romani: masek — period into which a year is divided
  • Romani: ćhon — period into which a year is divided
  • Romanian: lună — period into which a year is divided
  • Romansh: mais — period into which a year is divided
  • Russian: ме́сяц (mésjac) — period into which a year is divided
  • Inari-Sami: mánuppaje — period into which a year is divided
  • Northern Sami: mánotbadji — period into which a year is divided
  • Skolt-Sami: mään — period into which a year is divided
  • Skolt-Sami: määnpââ ́jj — period into which a year is divided
  • Sanskrit: मास (māsa) — period into which a year is divided
  • Sardinian: mese — period into which a year is divided
  • Sardinian: mesi — period into which a year is divided
  • Scottish Gaelic: mìos — period into which a year is divided
  • Serbo-Croatian: ме̏се̄ц — period into which a year is divided
  • Serbo-Croatian: мје̏се̄ц — period into which a year is divided
  • Serbo-Croatian: mȅsēc — period into which a year is divided
  • Serbo-Croatian: mjȅsēc — period into which a year is divided
  • Sherpa: ལའ (la') — period into which a year is divided
  • Sicilian: misi — period into which a year is divided
  • Silesian: mjeśůnc — period into which a year is divided
  • Sindhi: مهنو (mhno) — period into which a year is divided
  • Sinhalese: මාසය (māsaya) — period into which a year is divided
  • Slovak: mesiac — period into which a year is divided
  • Slovene: mésec — period into which a year is divided
  • Somali: bil — period into which a year is divided
  • Lower Sorbian: mjasec — period into which a year is divided
  • Upper Sorbian: měsac — period into which a year is divided
  • Sotho: kgwedi — period into which a year is divided
  • Spanish: mes — period into which a year is divided
  • Sundanese: sasih — period into which a year is divided
  • Swahili: mwezi — period into which a year is divided
  • Swedish: månad — period into which a year is divided
  • Tabasaran: ваз (vaz) — period into which a year is divided
  • Tagalog: buwan — period into which a year is divided
  • Tajik: моҳ (moh) — period into which a year is divided
  • Tamil: மாதம் (mātam) — period into which a year is divided
  • Tamil: மாசம் (mācam) — period into which a year is divided
  • Tamil: திங்கள் (tiṅkaḷ) — period into which a year is divided
  • Tatar: ай (ay) — period into which a year is divided
  • Tày: bươn — period into which a year is divided
  • Telugu: నెల (nela) — period into which a year is divided
  • Telugu: మాసము (māsamu) — period into which a year is divided
  • Tetum: fulan — period into which a year is divided
  • Thai: เดือน (dʉʉan) — period into which a year is divided
  • Thai: มาส (mâat) — period into which a year is divided
  • Tibetan: ཟླ (zla) — period into which a year is divided
  • Tigrinya: ወርሒ (wärḥi) — period into which a year is divided
  • Tocharian A: mañ — period into which a year is divided
  • Tocharian B: meñe — period into which a year is divided
  • Tok Pisin: mun — period into which a year is divided
  • Turkish: ay — period into which a year is divided
  • Turkmen: aý — period into which a year is divided
  • Tuvan: ай (ay) — period into which a year is divided
  • Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎗𐎃 (yrḫ) — period into which a year is divided
  • Ukrainian: мі́сяць (mísjacʹ) — period into which a year is divided
  • Urdu: مَہِینا (mahīnā) — period into which a year is divided
  • Urdu: مَہِینَہ (mahīna) — period into which a year is divided
  • Urdu: ماہ (māh) — period into which a year is divided
  • Urdu: ماس (mās) — period into which a year is divided
  • Uyghur: ئاي (ay) — period into which a year is divided
  • Uzbek: oy — period into which a year is divided
  • Venetan: méxe — period into which a year is divided
  • Veps: ku — period into which a year is divided
  • Vietnamese: tháng — period into which a year is divided
  • Volapük: mul — period into which a year is divided
  • Welsh: mis — period into which a year is divided
  • Yaghnobi: моҳ (moh) — period into which a year is divided
  • Yakut: ый (ïy) — period into which a year is divided
  • Yiddish: חודש (khóydesh) — period into which a year is divided
  • Yiddish: מאָנאַט (monat) — period into which a year is divided
  • Zazaki: mang — period into which a year is divided
  • Zazaki: menge (diq) — period into which a year is divided
  • Zhuang: ndwen — period into which a year is divided
  • Zulu: inyanga — period into which a year is divided
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