Belarusian months - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The months of the year used with the Gregorian calendar

Gregorian calendar

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in the Belarusian language
Belarusian language
The Belarusian language , sometimes referred to as White Russian or White Ruthenian, is the language of the Belarusian people...

differ from the original Latin month names:

No.	English name	Belarusian name	Transliteration	Belarusian meaning
1	January	Студзень	Studzień	month of cold
2	February	Люты	Luty	cruel or frosty
3	March	Сакавiк	Sakavik	month of the birch sap Birch sap Birch sap is the sap extracted from a birch tree, such as a North American Sweet Birch or a Silver Birch. The sap is often a slightly sweet, thin syrupy-watery liquid...
4	April	Красавiк	Krasavik	month of beauty, month of flowers, month of blossom
5	May	Травень	Travień	month of grass
6	June	Чэрвень	Červień	red month, meaning month when berries ripe and turn red
7	July	Лiпень	Lipień	month of the lipa (linden tree Tilia Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The greatest species diversity is found in Asia, and the genus also occurs in Europe and eastern North America, but not western North America... ) blossom
8	August	Жнiвень	Žnivień	month of harvesting
9	September	Верасень	Vierasień	month of heather
10	October	Кастрычнiк	Kastryčnik	month of "kastryca" (wastes that remain after combing Combing Combing is a method for preparing carded fibre for spinning. It separates out the short fibres by means of a rotating ring of steel pins. The fibres in the 'top' it produces, have been straightened and lie parallel to each other... of flax Flax Flax is a member of the genus Linum in the family Linaceae. It is native to the region extending from the eastern Mediterranean to India and was probably first domesticated in the Fertile Crescent... , a flaxen straw Straw Straw is an agricultural by-product, the dry stalks of cereal plants, after the grain and chaff have been removed. Straw makes up about half of the yield of cereal crops such as barley, oats, rice, rye and wheat. It has many uses, including fuel, livestock bedding and fodder, thatching and... )
11	November	Лiстапад	Listapad	falling leaves
12	December	Снежань	Śniežań	month of snow Snow Snow is a form of precipitation within the Earth's atmosphere in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes that fall from clouds. Since snow is composed of small ice particles, it is a granular material. It has an open and therefore soft structure, unless packed by...

External links

http://projetbabel.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7222 A comprehensive table of Slavic and Baltic month names, explanation in French.

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