[Heb. ădā·r of uncertain etymol.] The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical, the sixth of the civil, year.
1382. Wyclif, 1 Esdr. vii. 5. The moneth of March [1535 Coverdale ibid. The moneth Addar]. Ibid., Esther iii. 7. The twelfthe moneth went out, that is clepid Adar.
1535. Coverdale, ibid. The twolueth moneth, that is the moneth Adar. 1611 ibid. The twelfth moneth, that is the moneth Adar.
1833. Pen. Cycl., I. 115/1. Adar may begin as early as the 1st of February, or as late as the 3rd of March.
