Rabi' al-Awwal

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Rabi' al-Awwal
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Native name	رَبِيع ٱلْأَوَّل (Arabic)
Calendar	Islamic calendar
Month number	3
Number of days	29-30 (depends on actual observation of the moon's crescent)
Significant days	Eid-e-Milad
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Rabiʽ al-Awwal (Arabic: رَبِيع ٱلْأَوَّل, romanized: Rabīʿ al-ʾAwwal, lit. 'The initial Rabi', also known as Rabi' al-Ula (Arabic: رَبِيع ٱلْأُولَىٰ, romanized: Rabī‘ al-ʾŪlā, lit. 'The first Rabi'), or Rabi' I) is the third month of the Islamic calendar. The name Rabī‘ al-awwal means "the first month or beginning of spring", referring to its position in the pre-Islamic Arabian calendar.

In the days of the Ottoman Empire, the name of this month in Ottoman Turkish was Rèbi' ulèvvèl,^[1] with the abbreviation Ra.^[2] In modern Turkish, it is Rebiülevvel.