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Noun: Nowruz
  1. (Persian) the new year holiday in Iran and Azerbaijan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and parts of India and among the Kurds; comes at the vernal equinox
    - Noruz, Nowrooz

Type of: March equinox, spring equinox, vernal equinox

Encyclopedia: Nowruz