Coptic Calendar
Summary |
Origin
The Coptic calendar also known as "calendar of the martyrs" was the calendar used by the people Coptic in antiquity. It derives from the ancient Egyptian calendar , but no longer based on lunar cycles and add amenities for leap years.
Operation
The Coptic calendar has its starting point in the year of access to power of the Roman emperor Diocletian. This corresponds to 11 September 284 of the Gregorian calendar.
Months
The year consists of twelve months of thirty days and one month of five days (or six in leap years). The spelling of the months is that of Egyptian names of the first millennium BC. BC It can be interpreted in the Latin alphabet in different ways. Here's one with brackets correspondence with the Gregorian calendar :
- all (September / October)
- baba (October / November)
- Hatour (November / December)
- kyahk (December / January)
- toubah (January / February)
- amshr (February / March)
- barmaht (March / April)
- barmoudah (April / May)
- Bashan (May / June)
- ba'ounah (June / July)
- Abib (July / August)
- misra (August / September)
- al-Nasi (September 6 to 10 or 11 September)
Leap Years
Leap years are offset by one year with those of the Gregorian calendar. For example, 2000 is a leap year in the Gregorian calendar, while the previous year (1999) is in the Coptic calendar.
Week
Coptic week has seven days and begins on Sunday:
- Tkyriaka: Sunday
- Pesnau: Monday
- Pshoment: Tuesday
- Peftoou: Wednesday
- Ptiou: Thursday
- Psoou: Friday
- Psabbaton: Saturday
The Coptic calendar today
The Coptic calendar today is mainly the liturgical calendar of the Coptic Orthodox Church and serves only to determine the religious and liturgical celebrations and reference Synaxarion Copt.
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