nowruz, n.All

Nowruz (n.) cleans the whole house first so the new year has somewhere clean to arrive.

Nowruz (n.) sends families outdoors on the thirteenth day for a picnic, because staying home that day is unlucky.

Nowruz (n.) reaches back through Zoroastrian Persia and is kept today by Iranians, Kurds, Afghans, Central Asians, and Bahá'ís.

Nowruz (n.) works like a starting gun fired at the spring equinox, timed to the second.

Nowruz (n.) sets a haft-seen table of seven items whose Persian names start with S, from garlic to vinegar.