kalendārs

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin calendarium (“account book”), from calendae (“the first day of the month”), from calō (“to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)”).

kalendārs m (1st declension)

1. calendar (listing of days, weeks, and months that compose a year; the corresponding printed material, as a book, table, etc. usually including also major events and astronomical data, and sometimes further information)

   noplēšamais sienas kalendārs ― tear-off wall calendar

   piezīmju kalendārs ― notebook calendar

   galda kalendārs ― desk calendar, datebook

   kalendāra gards ― calendar year

   lauksaimniecības kalendārs ― agricultural calendar

   pāršķirt lapu galda kalendārā ― to turn a page in the desk calendar

   Berlīne ir kritusi... kalendārs rāda: 1945. gada 2. maijs ― Berlin has fallen... the calendar shows: May 2nd, 1945

   nu jau krietni pāri diviem gadu simtiem, kopš kalendāri sāka iznākt latviski ― now well over two centuris since calendars began to come out in Latvian

   mūsdienās kalendāri atrodami katrā mājā, tos lasa veci un jauni... ir pat specializēti: sieviešu, bērnu, sporta, astronomiskie un citi kalendāri ― nowadays calendars can be found in every house, they are read by the old and the young... there are even specialized ones: women's, children's, sports, astronomical and other calendars

2. calendar (time counting system based on periodic natural phenomena)

   saules, mēness kalendārs ― solar, lunar calendar

   Jūlija, Gregora kalendārs ― Julian, Gregorian calendar

   regulārā mēness izskata maiņa ir devusi pamatu kalendāram ― the regular change in the appearance of the moon has given rise to the calendar

• (of "listing of days, weeks, months"): kalendārijs

(Gregorian calendar months) Gregora kalendāra mēneši; janvāris, februāris, marts, aprīlis, maijs, jūnijs, jūlijs, augusts, septembris, oktobris, novembris, decembris ^{(Category: lv:Months)}