Sha'ban

• Shaaban, Shaban

Borrowed from Arabic شَعْبَان (šaʕbān), from شَعَبَ (šaʕaba, “to scatter, to disperse”).

Sha'ban (plural Sha'bans)

1. The eighth month of the Islamic calendar.
   • 1958–1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 19:

     They go out also to spend the night there on the night if mid-Sha'ban, and the market people take out all kinds of eatables.

• (Islamic calendar months) Islamic calendar month; Muharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Sha'ban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu'l-Qa'da, Dhu'l-Hijja ^{(Category: en:Islamic months)}