Stars with Arabic Names
Vega
النَّسْرُ الواقِع
al-nasr al-wāqiʿ
The Arabs saw three stars set like cooking-stones: the brightest is the eagle, the other two its wings, folded to its body like a bird that has landed – facing the Flying Eagle, wings spread. Latin scribes kept only the last word, wāqiʿ – written Wega, then Vega.
- Meaning in Arabic
- the eagle come to rest, wings folded
- Constellation
- Lyra
- Where to see it
- brightest star of Lyra
The path between languagesal-wāqiʿ → Wega → Vega
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