Hilal (Arabic term)
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Hilāl is an Arabic word that means "crescent
" or "new moon
". It is an Islamic symbol, used by the Red Crescent societies and elsewhere.
Crescent
In art and symbolism, a crescent is generally the shape produced when a circular disk has a segment of another circle removed from its edge, so that what remains is a shape enclosed by two circular arcs of different diameters which intersect at two points .In astronomy, a crescent...
" or "new moon
New moon
In astronomical terminology, the new moon is the lunar phase that occurs when the Moon, in its monthly orbital motion around Earth, lies between Earth and the Sun, and is therefore in conjunction with the Sun as seen from Earth...
". It is an Islamic symbol, used by the Red Crescent societies and elsewhere.