adar

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Adar
    n 1: the sixth month of the civil year; the twelfth month of the
         ecclesiastic year in the Jewish calendar (in February and
         March)

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Adar \A"dar\, n. [Heb. ad[aum]r.]
   The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the
   sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.
   [1913 Webster]

from Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

Adar
large, the sixth month of the civil and the twelfth of the
ecclesiastical year of the Jews (Esther 3:7, 13; 8:12; 9:1, 15,
17, 19, 21). It included the days extending from the new moon of
our March to the new moon of April. The name was first used
after the Captivity. When the season was backward, and the lambs
not yet of a paschal size, or the barley not forward enough for
abib, then a month called Veadar, i.e., a second Adar, was
intercalated.

from Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)

Adar, high; eminent

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