Word: lunisolar
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Then there is the Jewish calendar, which determines the placement of Purim. It is "lunisolar," which means that holidays wander with the moon until they reach the end of what might be thought of as a month-long tether, which has the effect of maintaining them in the same season every year...
...fact, numerous other systems have been devised to keep track of the passage of the years. The oldest in continuous use, China's lunisolar cycle, assigns an animal to each year based on the Chinese zodiac: the Year of the Tiger, Horse and so on. One of the longest counts is Judaism's reckoning of time from the creation of the world, by which the year 2000 will begin during 5760. For the world's Muslims, it will be the year 1420, counted from the Prophet Muhammad's Hegira (migration) to Medina...
...Israel was proclaimed a state on May 15, 1948, according to the Gregorian calendar that some Arabs follow. Israelis celebrated the event on April 23rd, the 21st anniversary by the Jewish lunisolar calendar...
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