Arabic in Cards

Stars with Arabic Names

Stars you can see tonight, whose names are Arabic – carried into Latin and changed on the way.

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Aldebaran Betelgeuse Rigel

Why these cards?

Hundreds of stars still carry Arabic names. These are the best known: stars you can see with the naked eye, whose Arabic names the International Astronomical Union records.

See also: al-Sufi's Book of the Fixed Stars, in the series Arabic in the Sciences

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Rigel
rijl al-jawzāʾ
Altair
al-nasr al-ṭāʾir
Vega
al-nasr al-wāqiʿ
Deneb
dhanab al-dajāja
Algol
raʾs al-ghūl
Saiph
sayf al-jabbār