Month Names and Their Roman Origins

๐Œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก ๐๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐‘๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐Ž๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ

Mohamad Mostafa Nassar

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  • ๐‰๐š๐ง๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฌ โ€œ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‰๐š๐ง๐ฎ๐ฌโ€ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐›๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ. ๐‰๐š๐ง๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž๐ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌโ€”๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ. ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ž๐ž๐, ๐‰๐š๐ง๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ž๐ฉ๐ข๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐Ÿ๐š๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐, ๐š๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ.

  • ๐…๐ž๐›๐ซ๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ, โ€œ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ,โ€ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐ž๐›๐ซ๐ฎ๐š, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š ๐‘๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก.

  • ๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ก ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐ž๐ญ: ๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐ฌ. ๐ˆ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐‘๐จ๐ฆ๐ž, ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ก ๐›๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ ๐š ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ. ๐€๐ญ ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž, ๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ก ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐๐š๐ซ. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ฌ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‘๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐„๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ž.

  • ๐€๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง ๐€๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง ๐›๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐š๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐จ-, ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  โ€œ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐.โ€ ๐€๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ง๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐›๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐š๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐‘๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐๐š๐ซ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐€๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก.

  • ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐†๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ค ๐ ๐จ๐๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐Œ๐š๐ข๐š, ๐๐š๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐€๐ญ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‡๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ. ๐’๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐ง๐ฎ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐ง ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ก ๐ ๐จ๐๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ฌ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ง๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐›๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก.

  • ๐‰๐ฎ๐ง๐ž ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐œ๐ž๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐‰๐ฎ๐ง๐จ, ๐ฐ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ซ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ ๐จ๐๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐๐›๐ข๐ซ๐ญ๐ก.

  • ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ง๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ก๐จ๐ง๐จ๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐‚๐š๐ž๐ฌ๐š๐ซ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ’ ๐.๐‚., ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐›๐ž๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐›๐ข๐ซ๐ญ๐ก. ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐๐š๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐›๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง, ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐š ๐๐ž๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ.

  • ๐€๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐‘๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐›๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐. ๐ˆ๐ง ๐Ÿ– ๐.๐‚., ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก ๐’๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ (โ€œ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฑ๐ญ๐กโ€) ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐€๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฌ, ๐ง๐ž๐ฉ๐ก๐ž๐ฐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐‚๐š๐ž๐ฌ๐š๐ซ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐จ๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‘๐จ๐ฆ๐ž. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐จ๐ซโ€™๐ฌ ๐ง๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐œ๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง ๐š๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฌ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐ ๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž โ€œ๐š๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ,โ€ ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  โ€œ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž.โ€

  • ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ, ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ (โ€œ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐งโ€), ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐›๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ก ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ.

  • ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐Ž๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐›๐ž๐ซ (๐จ๐œ๐ญ๐จ), ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ (๐ง๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฆ), ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ƒ๐ž๐œ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ (๐๐ž๐œ๐ž๐ฆ) ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐›๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ž๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ก, ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ก, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ก ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ. ๐€๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ง๐š๐ซ ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐๐š๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐ข๐ง ๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ก ๐š๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž.

๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ” ๐.๐‚., ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐‰๐š๐ง๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐›๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐๐š๐ซ, ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ƒ๐ž๐œ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐กโ€“๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ก ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ.

๐€๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ก ๐Š๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ

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The Pagan Roots of Good Friday

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Satna Claus the Great Imposter

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Did Allah deceive Christians by allowing a substitute person on the Cross?

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The Pagan Roots of Easter

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