almanac

English

Alternative forms

• almanack (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English almenak, from Old French almanach, from Medieval Latin almanachus, from Andalusian Arabic الْمَنَاخ (al-manāḵ, “almanac, calendar”), from Arabic الْمُنَاخ (al-munāḵ, “climate”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): [ˈɔl.mə.næk], [ˈæl-]
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): [ˈɑl.mə.næk], [ˈæl-]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈɔːl.mə.næk], [ˈɒl-]

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: al‧ma‧nac

Noun

almanac (plural almanacs)

1. (astronomy, navigation) A book or table listing nautical, astronomical, astrological or other events for the year; sometimes, but not essentially, containing historical and statistical information.
2. A handbook, typically published annually, containing information on a particular subject.
3. A GPS signal consisting of coarse orbit and status information for each satellite in a satellite constellation.

Derived terms

• clog almanac

Translations

book or table listing astronomical, nautical or other events for the year

• Albanian: almanak (sq) m
• Arabic: رُوزْنَامَة f (rūznāma), تَقْوِيم m (taqwīm) (calendar)
• Armenian: տարեցույց (hy) (tarecʻuycʻ), ալմանախ (hy) (almanax)
• Azerbaijani: almanax
• Belarusian: альмана́х m (alʹmanáx)
• Bulgarian: алмана́х (bg) m (almanáh)
• Catalan: almanac (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 曆書 / 历书 (zh) (lìshū), 皇曆 / 皇历 (zh) (huánglì), 年鑑 / 年鉴 (zh) (niánjiàn)

• Czech: almanach (cs) m
• Danish: almanak c
• Dutch: almanak (nl) m
• Esperanto: almanako, almanaĥo
• Estonian: almanahh
• Faroese: álmanakki (fo) m
• Finnish: almanakka (fi)
• French: almanach (fr) m
• Galician: almanaque m, reportorio m, calandraxo m
• Georgian: ალმანახი (almanaxi)
• German: Almanach (de) m
• Greek: αλμανάκ (el) n (almanák), καζαμίας (el) m (kazamías), μερομήνια (el) n pl (meromínia)
• Hebrew: אַלְמָנָךְ m (almanákh)
• Hungarian: almanach (hu)
• Ido: almanako (io)
• Indonesian: almanak (id)
• Irish: almanag m
• Italian: almanacco (it) m
• Japanese: 年鑑 (ja) (ねんかん, nenkan), アルマナック (arumanakku)
• Kazakh: жыржинақ (jyrjinaq), альманах (almanax)
• Khmer: មហាសង្ក្រាន្ត (mĕəʼhaa sɑngkraan)
• Korean: 연감(年鑑) (ko) (yeon'gam), 년감(年鑑) (nyeon'gam) (North Korea), 얼머낵 (eolmeonaek)
• Kyrgyz: альманах (ky) (almanah)
• Latin: fāstī m pl, almanacus m
• Latvian: almanahs m
• Lithuanian: almanachas m
• Macedonian: алманах m (almanah)
• Malay: almanak
• Maltese: almanakk m
• Manx: feaillere m, meesaghan m
• Norman: almonnas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: almanakk (no) m

• Occitan: almanac m
• Persian: زیگ (fa) (zig), دَفتَرِ سال (daftar-e sâl), سالنَما (fa) (sâlnamâ), سالنامه (fa) (sâlnâme)
• Polish: almanach (pl) m
• Portuguese: almanaque (pt) m
• Romanian: almanah (ro) n
• Russian: альмана́х (ru) m (alʹmanáx), календа́рь (ru) m (kalendárʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: almanac m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: алма̀нах m

  Roman: almànah m

• Slovak: almanach m
• Slovene: almanah m
• Spanish: almanaque (es) m
• Swedish: almanacka (sv) c
• Tagalog: almanake (tl)
• Tajik: алманах (almanax)
• Tatar: әлманах (älmanax)
• Telugu: పంచాంగము (te) (pañcāṅgamu)
• Thai: กาลานุกรม (gaa-laa-nú-grom)
• Tibetan: ལེ་ཐོ (le tho)
• Turkish: almanak (tr)
• Ukrainian: альмана́х (uk) m (alʹmanáx)
• Uzbek: almanax (uz)
• Vietnamese: lịch thư
• Welsh: almanac (cy) m

handbook published annually

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 年鑒 / 年鉴 (zh) (niánjiàn)

• Finnish: vuosikirja (fi)
• Galician: anuario (gl) m
• Irish: almanag m
• Kazakh: жыржинақ (jyrjinaq)
• Polish: almanach (pl) m
• Portuguese: anuário m
• Russian: альмана́х (ru) m (alʹmanáx), ежего́дник (ru) m (ježegódnik)
• Welsh: almanac (cy) m

Anagrams

• mancala

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic الْمَنَاخ (al-manāḵ, “almanac, calendar”), from Arabic الْمُنَاخ (al-munāḵ, “climate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əl.məˈnak]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [al.maˈnak]

Noun

almanac m (plural almanacs)

1. almanac

   Synonym: efemèrides

Further reading

• “almanac”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “almanac” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “almanac”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Romanian

Noun

almanac n (plural almanacuri)

1. obsolete form of almanah

Declension

Declension of almanac

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	almanac	almanacul		almanacuri	almanacurile
genitive-dative	almanac	almanacului		almanacuri	almanacurilor
vocative	almanacule			almanacurilor

References

• almanac in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalmanak/

Noun

almanac m (plural almanaciau)

1. almanac

Mutation

Mutated forms of almanac

radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
almanac	unchanged	unchanged	halmanac

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.