Definition of "lunar month" [lunar month]

• The average time between successive new or full moons, equal to 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes. Also called synodic month. (noun)

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• "“Rajab,” lit. = “worshipping:” it is the seventh lunar month and still called “Shahr-i-Khuda”"
• "But the Prophet, in the tenth Hijrah year, most unwisely forbade “Nasy” = triennial intercalation (Koran ix. 36) and thus the lunar month went round all the seasons."
• "‘Umrah or lesser Pilgrimage, I have noted, is the ceremony performed in Meccah at any time out of the pilgrim-season proper, i.e. between the eighth and tenth days of the twelfth lunar month"