Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The first month of the Mohammedan year.
- noun A festival of the Shiah sect of the Mohammedans held during the first ten days of the month Mohurrum.
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Examples
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They determined to take advantage of the coming mohurrum festival to revenge the _affront_ as men commonly do who live among such a fanatical community.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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Certainly no event can be more sorrowful among Mahommedans than that which is commemorated in the mohurrum by illuminations and processions with the Tazeeas; and yet no illuminations are more brilliant, and no processions more noisy, costly, and splendid.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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