Etymology

Safar

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Today it means: The second month of the Islamic calendar. Full definition →

Arabic صَفَر
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  1. Arabic · borrowed fromصَفَر
  2. English todaySafar

Borrowed from Arabic صَفَر (ṣafar), from صَفِرَ (ṣafira, “to be empty”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.