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NORUZ
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(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
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Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Noruz" is a kind of...):
March equinox; spring equinox; vernal equinox (March 21)
Domain category:
Farsi; Persian (the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms)