Stars with Arabic Names
Betelgeuse
يَدُ الجَوْزاء
yad al-jawzāʾ
Al-Jawzāʾ was the Arabs' figure of a woman where the Greeks saw Orion. A Latin copyist read the first letter, yā’, as bā’, and wrote Bedalgeuze – the ancestor of Betelgeuse.
- Meaning in Arabic
- the hand of al-Jawzāʾ
- Constellation
- Orion
- Where to see it
- the red star on Orion's shoulder
The path between languagesyad al-jawzāʾ → Bedalgeuze → Betelgeuse
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