# ניסן
## Aramaic
### Alternative forms

* ܢܝܣܢ (nīsān)

### Etymology

From Akkadian 𒌚𒁈 (nisannum), from Sumerian 𒉠 (nesag̃).

### Proper noun

נִיסָן • (nīsān) m
* (Judaism) Nisan (the seventh month of the civil year and the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Adar and before Iyar)

#### Descendants

* Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܝܼܣܵܢ (nīsān)
* Turoyo: ܢܝܣܷܢ (nisën)
* Classical Syriac: ܢܝܣܢ (nīsān)
** → Arabic: نيسان (naysān)
*** → Ottoman Turkish: نیسان (nisan)
**** Turkish: nisan
**** Northern Kurdish: nîsan
*** → Persian: نَیسان (neysân)

### References

* “nysn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
* Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 906

## Hebrew
### Etymology

From Akkadian 𒌚𒁈 (nisannum), from Sumerian 𒉠 (nesag̃).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

נִיסָן • (nisán) m
* (Judaism) Nisan (the seventh month of the civil year and the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Adar and before Iyar)
** Tanach, Nehemiah 2:1, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:וַיְהִי בְּחֹדֶשׁ נִיסָן שְׁנַת עֶשְׂרִים לְאַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא הַמֶּלֶךְ יַיִן לְפָנָיו וָאֶשָּׂא אֶת־הַיַּיִן וָאֶתְּנָה לַמֶּלֶךְ וְלֹא־הָיִיתִי רַע לְפָנָיו׃Vayhí b-ḥódesh Nisan shnat 'esrím l-Artaḥshást' ha-mélekh yáyin l'fanáv va-esá et ha-yáyin va-etná la-mélekh v-lo hayíti ra' l'fanáv.And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
** a. 217 C.E., Mishnah, Pesachim 4:9:עִבֵּר נִיסָן בְּנִיסָן, וְלֹא הוֹדוּ לוֹ:'Ibér Nisán b-Nisán, v-lo hodu lo.He intercalated Nisan in Nisan, and they did not condone him.
** a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 11a:רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ אוֹמֵר: בְּנִיסָן נִבְרָא הָעוֹלָם, בְּנִיסָן נוֹלְדוּ אָבוֹת, בְּנִיסָן מֵתוּ אָבוֹתRabbí Yehoshúa' omér: B-Nisán nivrá ha-'olám, b-Nisán noldú avót, b-Nisán métu avót.Rabbi Yehoshua says: In Nisan the world was created, in Nisan the patriarchs were born, in Nisan the patriarchs died.
* a male given name

#### See also

* תשרי
* חשוון
* כסלו
* טבת
* שבט
* אדר
* ניסן
* אייר
* סיוון
* תמוז
* אב
* אלול

### References

* H5212 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

### Further reading

* ניסן on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{he}$

## Yiddish
### Etymology 1

From Middle High German niesen, from Old High German niosan, from Proto-West Germanic *hneusan, from Proto-Germanic *hneusaną, a variant of *fneusaną. Cognate with German niesen, Dutch niezen, English sneeze.

#### Pronunciation

* (YIVO, Northeastern) IPA: /ˈnɪsn̩/
* (Poylish, Ukrainish) IPA: /ˈniːsn̩/

#### Verb

ניסן • (nisn) (past participle גענאָסן (genosn))
* to sneeze

##### Related terms

* נאָס (nos)
* ניס (nis)
* ניסערײַ (niseray)

### Etymology 2

From Hebrew נִיסָן.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɪsn̩/

#### Noun

ניסן • (nisn) m
* (Judaism) Nisan (the seventh month of the civil year and the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Adar and before Iyar)

##### See also

* תּשרי (tishre)
* חשוון (kheshvn)
* כּסלו (kislev)
* טבֿת (teyves)
* שבֿט (shvat)
* אָדר (oder)
* ניסן (nisn)
* אייר (iyer)
* סיוון (sivn)
* תּמוז (tamez)
* אָבֿ (ov)
* אלול (elel)