Definition of "nowruz" [nowruz]

• (Persian) the new year holiday in Iran and Azerbaijan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and parts of India and among the Kurds; comes at the vernal equinox (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "A snappy new group show at Queen Gallery, entitled Norouz (one of many English spellings of the word), celebrates the holiday with a varied assortment of works by seven Iranian-Canadian artists, all of whom approach the forward-looking theme - the transliteration of the Persian word nowruz is literally "new day" - with a winning combination of clear-eyed bluntness (particularly around the ongoing oppression and political turmoil in Iran) and informed hopefulness."
• "Persian New Year call it what you will: norouz, nowruz, Persian Park Day, whatever looms once again."
• "Every March great numbers of Iranians laughingly celebrate the nowruz, or New Year holiday — a fire ceremony with dances long pre-dating Islam."