شِيبَانُ
and مِلْحَانُ, thus in a verse of El-Kumeyt, as related by Ibn-Selemeh, with kesr to the ش and م, or the former word is written
شَيْبَانُ, and sometimes شِيبَانُ, and the latter is as above, and sometimes مَلْحَانُ, The two months of winter; [as though meaning the second of the Six Seasons, commencing two months after the autumnal equinox; ] i. q.شَهْرَا قِمَاحٍ, which are the two coldest months; so called because of the earth's being then white with snow and hoar frost; falling at the period of the [auroral] rising of the Scorpion and the Vulture, (العَقْرَب and النَّسْر, [by which latter is meant النَّسْرُ الوَاقِعُ, i. e. the star a of Lyra,]) said by him who knows not to be the two Kánoons [i. e. كَانُونُ الأَوَّلُ and كَانُونُ الثَّانِى, corresponding to December and January O.S.]: [it appears that they nearly agree with the two Kánoons; for El-Kazweenee and others say that القَلْبُ and النَّسْرُ الوَاقِعُ rise together, and their auroral rising in Central Arabia, about the commencement of the era of the Flight, accord. to my calculation, (see مَنَازِلُ القَمَرِ in art. نزل,) was on the 25th of November O. S.: see also مِلْحَانُ, and قِمَاحٌ: it is also said that] شِيبَانُ [used alone] is a name of [the month] كانون الاوّل, because of the whiteness of the earth by reason of the hoar-frost and snow.
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