chaabane
French, noun/ʃa.ban/
chaabane is spelled C-H-A-A-B-A-N-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 130,697th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chaabane is a French masculine noun meaning “Sha'ban (the eighth month of the Islamic calendar)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Huitième mois du calendrier musulman”.
What does chaabane mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineSha'ban (the eighth month of the Islamic calendar)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Huitième mois du calendrier musulman.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chaabane
- chaban alternative
- cha'ban alternative
- chaaban dated
- cha’ban
- schaban
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chaabane?
- /ʃa.ban/
- \ʃa.ban\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chaabane in French?
chaabane appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).