nisan

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
7
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/niːˈsɑːn/
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/niːˈsɑːn/ · /ˈnɪsən/ · /ˈnaɪsæn/

Definition of nisan

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

name

  1. (Judaism)The seventh month of the civil year and the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Adar and before Iyar.
    “Micky Vayner shrugged; as far as he knew, it was, by the lunar calendar, an ordinary day in the month of Nisan.”

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Etymology

From Hebrew נִיסָן (nisán).

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