English Explanatory Dictionary

Adar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The sixth month of the civil year and the twelfth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Shevat and before Nisan. See also Adar Sheni.
noun
  1. The enzyme adenosine deaminase that affects RNA, important in editing nuclear double stranded RNAs (from A to I) in higher eukaryotes, that work by acting to convert adenosines to insosines via hydrolytic deamination.

Word forms

Adar ADARs ADA

Etymology

From Hebrew אֲדָר (adár). Doublet of Addaru.

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