Hindoo

{Hin"doo , or Hindu, calendar }. A lunisolar calendar of India, according to which the year is divided into twelve months, with an extra month inserted after every month in which two new moons occur (once in three years). The intercalary month has the name of the one which precedes it. The year usually commences about April 11. The months are follows:

 Baisakh . . . . . . . . . . April-May Jeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . May-June Asarh . . . . . . . . . .
. . June-July Sawan (Sarawan) .
. . . . . . July-Aug. Bhadon . . . . . . . . . . .
Aug.-Sept. Asin (Kuar). . . . . . . . . . Sept.-Oct. Katik (Kartik) . . . . . . . . Oct.-Nov.
Aghan . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov.-Dec. Pus . . . . .
. . . . . . . . Dec.-Jan. Magh . . . . . . . . . . . .
. Jan.-Feb. Phagun (Phalgun) . . . . . . . Feb.-March Chait . . . . . . . . . . . . March-April 

{ Hin"doo , Hin"du } (?; 277), n.; pl. Hindoos (#) or Hindus. [Per. Hindū, fr. Hind, Hindūstān, India. Cf. Indian.]

A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda.