The name of the first month of the Mohammadan year. The mourning festival observed in that month by the Musalmans of India, in remembrance of Hasan and Husain, the grandsons of the Prophet. [see P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon]

The name of the great Shiah mourning, held on the first ten days of this month, in commemoration of the death of Hussain, the third imam at karbabla, A.H. 61. [P Ramanatha Aiyer’s The Law Lexicon]