solar month
Britishnoun
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Farmers in the region plan to begin their wheat harvest on May 22, which marks the first day of the third Afghan solar month of Jawza, traditionally the start of harvest across the country.
From Reuters
In the solar month ending Sept. 21, 36 Afghan soldiers in the Helmand-based corps were killed, the lowest total for that month in five years.
From Los Angeles Times
The civil solar month begins with its first civil day, which is determined, in different localities, in the same manner with the first civil day of the Mēshādi year, as indicated above.
From Project Gutenberg
Of months there are various kinds; a solar month is the space of thirty days, in which time the sun runneth through one sign of the zodiac.
From Project Gutenberg
His answer is that this refers to nine solar months.
From Project Gutenberg
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