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Adar¹

Where it comes from

From Hebrew אֲדָר (adár). Doublet of Addaru.

proper noun

  1. Judaism The sixth month of the civil year and the twelfth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Shevat and before Nisan.

ADAR²

Where it comes from

Derived from the initial letters of adenosine deaminase acting on RNA.

noun ADARs · ADA

  1. countable, uncountable The enzyme adenosine deaminase that affects RNA, important in editing nuclear double stranded RNAs (from A to I) in higher eukaryotes, that work by acting to convert adenosines to insosines via hydrolytic deamination.

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name sixth month of civil year in the Jewish calendar

हिन्दीअदार adār
Portuguêsadar
РусскийАдар Adar
עבריתאֲדָר adár

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@misc{adar_2026,
  title = {Adar},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/adar},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}