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ineveryl

United States

27 chaoual 1393

French to English Social Sciences Religion Muslim month--need English spelling

I realize this is a Muslim date corresponding to November 23, 1973, but how do you correctly spell "chaoual" in English?

Thank you.

Proposed translations (English)

5 +2

3 mins

Aisha Maniar

750 answers

Native in English

Selected

Shawwal

that's the standard spelling in English. Texts from N Africa usually have both Islamic and Gregorian dates.

Peer comment(s):

agree	Matthias Quaschning-Kirsch 0 min
	thank you
agree	Martin Cassell : if you're using diacritics, the final a generally has a macron (long) 1 min
	yes or can be written with two aa to reflect the long Arabic vowel

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