Falgun

{{Short description|11th month of the Bengali calendar}}

{{Infobox month

| image = Boshonto Utshob by Sabila Enun 2.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Celebration stage of 1st day of Falgun, beginning of spring season in Bangladesh

| native_name = {{Native name|bn|ফাল্গুন}}

| calendar = * Bengali calendar

| num = * 11

| days = 29/30

| season = Spring

| gregorian = February–March

| holidays = Chotiro 30 – Choitro Sankranti

| prev_month = Magh

| next_month = Choitro

}}

Falgun or Phalgun ({{Langx|bn|ফাল্গুন}}; {{langx|ne|फाल्गुण}}) or Phagun ({{langx|as|ফাগুন}}) is the eleventh month of the year in the Bengali calendar,{{cite book |last1=Gyllenbok |first1=Jan |author-link=Jan Gyllenbok |year=2018 |title=Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures |volume=1 |publisher=Birkhäuser |pages=260–261 |isbn=978-3-319-57596-4}} the Assamese calendar,{{cite book |last1=Gyllenbok |first1=Jan |author-link=Jan Gyllenbok |year=2018 |title=Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures |volume=1 |publisher=Birkhäuser |page=252 |isbn=978-3-319-57596-4}} and the Nepali calendar.{{cite book |last1=Crump |first1=William D. |year=2014 |title=Encyclopedia of New Year's Holidays Worldwide |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ujTfCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA38 |publisher=McFarland |page=38 |isbn=978-1-4766-0748-1}} In the revision of the Bengali calendar used in Bangladesh since October 2019, the month has 29 days in common years or 30 in leap years of the Gregorian calendar.{{cite news |title=Bangladesh reworks Bangla calendar to match national days with West |url=https://bdnews24.com/lifestyle/2019/10/17/bangladesh-reworks-bangla-calendar-to-match-national-days-with-west |work=bdnews24.com |date=17 October 2019}} In the previous version of the calendar, used in Bangladesh from 1987 through October 2019, Falgun had 30 days in common years or 31 days in leap years.{{cite book |last1=Chakrabarti |first1=Kunal |last2=Chakrabarti |first2=Shubhra |year=2013 |title=Historical dictionary of the Bengalis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVOFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA114 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |pages=114–115 |isbn=978-0-8108-5334-8}} The month has 29 or 30 days, based on the true movements of the Sun, in the old non-reformed Bengali calendar, still used in West Bengal, and in the Nepali calendar.{{cite book |last1=Crump |first1=William D. |year=2014 |title=Encyclopedia of New Year's Holidays Worldwide |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ujTfCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 |publisher=McFarland |pages=26–27 |isbn=978-1-4766-0748-1}}

Falgun was named for the nakshatra (lunar mansion) Uttara phalguni, in the vicinity of which the full moon appears at that time of the year.{{cite journal |last=Jones |first=Howard D. |date=2018 |title=Historical Note: The Origin of the 28 Nakṣatras in Early Indian Astronomy and Astrology |journal=Indian Journal of History of Science |volume=53 |issue=3 |page=319 |doi=10.16943/ijhs/2018/v53i3/49463|s2cid=134652511 |doi-access=free }} It marks the arrival of spring, the sixth and final season in Bangladesh, West Bengal, Assam, and Nepal. Falgun falls between mid-February and mid-March on the Gregorian calendar.{{cite book |last1=Nicholas |first1=Ralph W. |year=2003 |title=Fruits of Worship: Practical Religion in Bengal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yLI7nyI2UVYC&pg=PA27 |publisher=Chronicle Books |location=New Delhi |page=27 |isbn=978-81-8028-006-1}}