Shawwal | |
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Native name | شَوَّال (Arabic) |
Calendar | Islamic calendar |
Month number | 10 |
Number of days | 29-30 (depends on actual observation of the moon's crescent) |
Significant days | Eid al-Fitr |
Islamic calendar |
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Months |
Shawwal (Arabic: شَوَّال, romanized: Shawwāl) is the tenth month of the Islamic calendar. It comes after Ramadan and before Dhu al-Qa'da.
Shawwāl stems from the Arabic verb shāla (شَالَ), which means to 'lift or carry',[1] generally to take or move things from one place to another. The month was so named because a female camel would normally be carrying a fetus at this time of year in pre-Islamic Arabia.[citation needed]