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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Aldebaran
al-dabarān
Fomalhaut
fam al-ḥūt
Dubhe
al-dubb
Merak
al-marāqq
Alkaid
al-qāʾid
Alnitak
al-niṭāq
Mintaka
al-minṭaqa
Achernar
ākhir al-nahr
Alphard
al-fard
Denebola
dhanab al-asad
Algenib
al-janb
Alphecca
al-fakka
Rasalhague
raʾs al-ḥawwāʾ
Shaula
al-shawla
Zubenelgenubi
al-zubānā al-janūbī
Zubeneschamali
al-zubānā al-shamālī
Unukalhai
ʿunuq al-ḥayya
Hamal
al-ḥamal
Menkar
al-minkhar