Nowruz

Nowruz

English

Etymology

From Persian نوروز‎ (nouruz), from نو‎ (nou, “new”) + روز‎ (ruz, “day”), cognate with the English phrase "new light".

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Now‧ruz
• (UK) IPA^(key): /nouˈɹuːz/

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Proper noun

Nowruz

1. New Year in the Iranian/Zoroastrian calendar, celebrated on the spring equinox.

Alternative forms

• Nouruz, Norouz, Norooz, Narooz
• Nawruz, Newroz, Newruz, Nauruz
• Nawroz, Noruz, Nohrooz, Novruz
• Nauroz, Navroz, Naw-Rúz, Nowroj
• Navroj, Nevruz, Navruz, Navrez
• Nooruz, Nauryz, Nevruz, Nowrouz

Translations

Iranian New Year

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: نَوْرُوز‎ m (nawrūz), نُورُوز‎ m (nūrūz), نَيْرُوز‎ m (nayrūz) Armenian: Նովրուզ (Novruz) Azerbaijani: Novruz m, Novruz bayramı Baluchi: please add this translation if you can Bashkir: Науруз (Nawruz), Нәүрүз (Näwrüz) Chinese: Mandarin: 納吾肉孜節, 纳吾肉孜节 (nàwúròuzī jié), 諾魯茲節, 诺鲁兹节 (nuòlǔzī jié), 伊朗的新年 (Yīlǎng de xīnnián) Chuvash: Нарӑс (Narăs) Crimean Tatar: Navrez Dutch: Noroez m Finnish: iranilainen uusi vuosi, Noruz French: Norouz (fr) m Georgian: ნავრუზი (navruzi) German: Nouruz m Hebrew: נורוז‎ m Hindi: नौरोज़ (nauroz) Indonesian: Norouz Japanese: ノウルーズ (nourūzu) Kazakh: Наурыз (kk) (Nawrız), Наурыз мейрамы (Nawrız meyramı) Korean: 누루즈 (nurujeu) Kumyk: Навруз (Navruz) Kurdish: Newroz (ku) Sorani: نەورۆز‎ (Newroz)

Kyrgyz: Нооруз (ky) (Nooruz) Lithuanian: Novrūzas Macedonian: please add this translation if you can Malay: Nowruz Middle Persian: 𐭭𐭥𐭪𐭫𐭥𐭰‎ (nwklwc /nōg-rōz/), 𐬥𐬋𐬭𐬋𐬰‎ (nō-rōz) Ossetian: Новруз (Novruz) Pashto: نوورځ‎ (naw wraz) Persian: نوروز‎ (fa) (nouruz) Portuguese: Noruz m Russian: Навру́з (ru) m (Navrúz), Новру́з (ru) m (Novrúz) Salar: please add this translation if you can Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Новруз m Roman: Novruz m Sindhi: please add this translation if you can Spanish: Noruz m Tajik: Наврӯз (tg) (Navrüz) Tatar: Нәүрүз (Näürüz) Turkish: Nevruz (tr), Nevruz Bayramı (tr) Turkmen: Nowruz Ukrainian: Навру́з m (Navrúz), Навре́з m (Navréz) (from Crimean Tatar) Urdu: نوروز‎ (nauroz) Uyghur: نورۇز‎ (noruz) Uzbek: navroʻz (uz)