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English
Etymology
From Middle English almenak , from Old French almanach , from Medieval Latin almanachus , from Andalusian Arabic الْمَنَاخ ( al-manāḵ , “ almanac, calendar ” ) , from Arabic الْمُنَاخ ( al-munāḵ , “ climate ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
almanac (plural almanacs )
( astronomy , navigation ) A book or table listing nautical, astronomical, astrological or other events for the year; sometimes, but not essentially, containing historical and statistical information.
A handbook , typically published annually, containing information on a particular subject.
A GPS signal consisting of coarse orbit and status information for each satellite in a satellite constellation .
Derived terms
Translations
book or table listing astronomical, nautical or other events for the year
Albanian: almanak (sq) m
Arabic: رُوزْنَامَة f ( rūznāma ) , تَقْوِيم m ( taqwīm ) ( calendar )
Armenian: տարեցույց (hy) ( tarecʻuycʻ ) , ալմանախ (hy) ( almanax )
Azerbaijani: almanax
Belarusian: альмана́х m ( alʹmanáx )
Bulgarian: алмана́х (bg) m ( almanáh )
Catalan: almanac (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 曆書 / 历书 (zh) ( lìshū ) , 皇曆 / 皇历 (zh) ( huánglì ) , 年鑑 / 年鉴 (zh) ( niánjiàn )
Czech: almanach (cs) m
Danish: almanak c
Dutch: almanak (nl) m
Esperanto: almanako , almanaĥo
Estonian: almanahh
Faroese: álmanakki (fo) m
Finnish: almanakka (fi)
French: almanach (fr) m
Galician: almanaque m , reportorio m , calandraxo m
Georgian: ალმანახი ( almanaxi )
German: Almanach (de) m
Greek: αλμανάκ (el) n ( almanák ) , καζαμίας (el) m ( kazamías ) , μερομήνια (el) n pl ( meromínia )
Hebrew: אַלְמָנָךְ m ( almanákh )
Hungarian: almanach (hu)
Ido: almanako (io)
Indonesian: almanak (id)
Irish: almanag m
Italian: almanacco (it) m
Japanese: 年鑑 (ja) ( ねんかん, nenkan ) , アルマナック ( arumanakku )
Kazakh: жыржинақ ( jyrjinaq ) , альманах ( almanax )
Khmer: មហាសង្ក្រាន្ត ( mĕəʼhaa sɑngkraan )
Korean: 연감(年鑑) (ko) ( yeon'gam ) , 년감(年鑑) ( nyeon'gam ) ( North Korea ) , 얼머낵 ( eolmeonaek )
Kyrgyz: альманах (ky) ( almanah )
Latin: fāstī m pl , almanacus m
Latvian: almanahs m
Lithuanian: almanachas m
Macedonian: алманах m ( almanah )
Malay: almanak
Maltese: almanakk m
Manx: feaillere m , meesaghan m
Norman: almonnas m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: almanakk (no) m
Occitan: almanac m
Persian: زیگ (fa) ( zig ) , دَفتَرِ سال ( daftar-e sâl ) , سالنَما (fa) ( sâlnamâ ) , سالنامه (fa) ( sâlnâme )
Polish: almanach (pl) m
Portuguese: almanaque (pt) m
Romanian: almanah (ro) n
Russian: альмана́х (ru) m ( alʹmanáx ) , календа́рь (ru) m ( kalendárʹ )
Scottish Gaelic: almanac m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: алма̀нах m
Roman: almànah m
Slovak: almanach m
Slovene: almanah m
Spanish: almanaque (es) m
Swedish: almanacka (sv) c
Tagalog: almanake (tl)
Tajik: алманах ( almanax )
Tatar: әлманах ( älmanax )
Telugu: పంచాంగము (te) ( pañcāṅgamu )
Thai: กาลานุกรม ( gaa-laa-nú-grom )
Tibetan: ལེ་ཐོ ( le tho )
Turkish: almanak (tr)
Ukrainian: альмана́х (uk) m ( alʹmanáx )
Uzbek: almanax (uz)
Vietnamese: lịch thư
Welsh: almanac (cy) m
handbook published annually
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic الْمَنَاخ ( al-manāḵ , “ almanac, calendar ” ) , from Arabic الْمُنَاخ ( al-munāḵ , “ climate ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
almanac m (plural almanacs )
almanac
Synonym: efemèrides
Further reading
Romanian
Noun
almanac n (plural almanacuri )
Obsolete form of almanah .
Declension
References
almanac in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a , Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Welsh
Pronunciation
Noun
almanac m (plural almanaciau )
almanac
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.