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# nowruz

«nowruz» in Mova's school dictionary: **the Persian New Year, a spring festival on the spring…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (Nowruz)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Nowruz is the Persian New Year, a spring festival on the spring equinox, around 20–21 March. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nowruz/#m1)

2) It is celebrated in Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Azerbaijan, by Kurds and others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nowruz/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Met in lessons about festivals around the world: families clean the house, jump over small fires, set a special table (haft-sin) and visit relatives.

### examples

- Nowruz means «new day». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nowruz/#x1)
- We celebrate Nowruz on the first day of spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nowruz/#x2)
- At Nowruz, families set a table with seven things beginning with «s». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nowruz/#x3)
- Children get gifts and new clothes at Nowruz. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nowruz/#x4)
- Nowruz is over 3,000 years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nowruz/#x5)
- My friend's family visits relatives at Nowruz. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nowruz/#x6)

### note

A name of a festival, so capital N. Also spelled Norouz, Navruz or Nauryz. Say «no-ROOZ». It is not a religious holiday for one faith only; people of many faiths keep it.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nowruz» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nowruz/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.