Arabic Calendar Cube

This cube is a perpetual calendar. By twisting and rotating it, you can set it to today's date.

The weekday is displayed on the upper layer, on the left or in the middle.

The day of the month is displayed on the middle layer, on the right or on the left.

The month is displayed on the bottom layer and is abbreviated into three unconnected characters.

Arabic weekdays

[يوم الأحد] ,[الأحد], yaum al-aḥad (Sunday, 1st day)

[يوم الإثنين] ,[الإثنين], yaum al-iṯnayn (Monday, 2nd day)

[يوم الثلاثاء] ,[الثلاثاء], yaum aṯ-ṯalāṯāʾ/aṯ-ṯulāṯāʾ (Tuesday, 3rd day)

[يوم الأربعاء] ,[الأربعاء], yaum al-arbaʿāʾ/al-arbiʿāʾ (Wednesday, 4th day)

[يوم الخميس] ,[الخميس], yaum al-ḫamīs (Thursday, 5th day)

[يوم الجمعة] ,[الجمعة], yaum al-ǧumʿâ (Friday, gathering/meeting day)

[يوم السبت] ,[السبت], yaum as-sabt (Saturday, sabbath/end day)

Traditionally, for Arabs, the week begins on Sunday.

Names of weekdays may be written using two different forms. The first is a short form, which is used in this calendar. In the second form, the word [يوم] which means 'day', come before the short form. This full form is used in phrases like 'last Sunday' or 'next Monday', for example.

Arabic months

[يناير] ,[ي][ن][ا], yanāyir (January)

[فبراير] ,[ف][ب][ر], fibrāyir (February)

[مارس] ,[م][ا][ر], māris (March)

[أبريل] ,[أ][ب][ر], abrīl (April)

[مايو] ,[م][ا][ي], māyū (May)

[يونيو] ,[يونيه] ,[ي][و][ن], yūniya, yūniyū (June)

[يوليو] ,[يوليه] ,[ي][و][ل], yūliya, yūliyū (July)

[أغسطس] ,[أ][غ][س], aġusṭus (August)

[سبتمبر] ,[س][ب][ت], sibtambar (September)

[أكتوبر] ,[أ][ك][ت], uktūbar (October)

[نوفمبر] ,[ن][و][ف], nūfambar (November)

[ديسمبر] ,[د][ي][س], dīsambar (December)

In arabic, letters may be written using up to three different forms, depending on their position inside a word. Letters that are at the beginning, inside or at the end of a word may not be the same. There is also a fourth form, which is used when the letter is unconnected, ie. not connected to another one. This latter form has been used here for writing the first three letters of each month on the cube.

The layout of the arabic calendar cube was created in 2008 by André Boulouard and Walter Randelshofer.

Faces of the cube: 1024 x 1024, 2048 x 2048

Enlarged view

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