star

Sranan Tongo: stari
Aukan: sitali

→ Finnish: stara

→ French: star

→ German: Star

→ Italian: star

→ Swahili: staa

From Middle English sterre, from Old English steorra (“star”), from Proto-West Germanic *sterrō, variant of *sternō, from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *sternǭ (“star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (“star”). Doublet of aster, stella, étoile, and estoile.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots starn, ster, North Frisian steer, West Frisian stjer, Saterland Frisian Stiern, Dutch ster, Luxembourgish Stär, German Stern, Yiddish שטערן (shtern), Vilamovian śtaom, Swedish stjärna, Norwegian stjerne, Icelandic stjarna, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō), Spanish estrella, Portuguese estrela, Italian stella, Romanian stea, Occitan estela, Venetan stéła, Sicilian stidda, Sardinian isteddu, Mirandese streilha, Walloon sitoele, Romansch staila, Megleno-Romanian steau̯ă, Istriot stila, Istro-Romanian ste, Latin stēlla, Greek αστέρι (astéri), Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr), Old Armenian աստղ (astł), Persian ستاره (setâre), Tajik ситора (sitora), Pashto ستوری (storay), Mazanderani اساره (ëssâre), Northern Kurdish stêr, Central Kurdish ئەستێرە (estêre), Zazaki astare, Ossetian стъалы (st’aly), Hindi तारा (tārā), Urdu تارا (tārā), Punjabi ਤਾਰਾ (tārā), Gujarati તારો (tāro), Sanskrit तारा (tārā).

аеҵǝа

a celestial body appearing as a point of light on the clear night sky, whose position is relatively fixed with respect to each other

(astronomy) A spheroid of plasma with sufficient gravity to fuse hydrogen or heavier elements into heavier elements still. Depending on context the Sun may or may not be included.

نَجْم

(astronomy) a luminous celestial body made of plasma


NS

(Malaysia) Initialism of Negeri Sembilan


sol

la-noun

sōl m (genitive sōlis); third declension

sōl (canonical masculine)
sōlis (genitive)
sōl (nominative singular)
sōlēs (nominative plural)
sōlis (genitive singular)
sōlum (genitive plural)
sōlī (dative singular)
sōlibus (dative plural)
sōlem (accusative singular)
sōlēs (accusative plural)
sōle (ablative singular)
sōlibus (ablative plural)
sōl (singular vocative)
sōlēs (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: soari

Istro-Romanian: sore

Megleno-Romanian: soari

Romanian: soare

Dalmatian: Dalmatian: saul

Italo-Romance:

Corsican: soli

Gallurese: soli

Sassarese: sori

Italian: sole

Neapolitan: sole

Tarantino: sole

Sicilian: suli

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: sole, sobi, soi, soli

North Italian:

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: sôl, soul, saul

Ligurian: sô

Lombard: sol, so

Piedmontese: sol, so

Romagnol: sól

Istriot: sul

Venetan: sołe

Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: sol

Franco-Provençal: sol

Old Gascon: só

Old Occitan: sol

Occitan: sol (Florac, Lastic, Creuse)

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: sol

Mozarabic: שול (šwl)

Old Leonese: [Term?]

Asturian: sol

Extremaduran: sol

Leonese: sol

Mirandese: sol

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: sol
Fala: sol
Galician: sol
Portuguese: Sol (see there for further descendants)

Spanish: sol

Vulgar Latin: *sōliculum (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

Proto-Brythonic: [Term?]

Cornish: Sul

Breton: Sul

Welsh: Sul

From Proto-Italic *s(u)wōl, from Proto-Indo-European *suh₂ṓl (*suh₂ól-s) ~ *suh₂l-és m (“the sun”), rebuilt s-stem from *súh₂el ~ *suh₂éns n (whence Sanskrit स्वर् (svar, “the sun”)), leveled from *sóh₂wl̥ ~ *suh₂éns (from *sh₂wéns via laryngeal metathesis). Alternatively from Proto-Italic *saul through an irregular change conditioned by -l, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ul.


sol

From Latin sōl (“sun”), or perhaps from Old English sōl (“sun”), both of which hail from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

The brightest and warmest celestial body, considered to be a planet in the Ptolemic system; the Sun (the center of our solar system).


neutronium

From neutron + -ium. Coined by scientist Andreas von Antropoff in 1926 (before the discovery of the neutron in 1931; neutrons had been predicted to exist in 1920).

(physics) A material composed entirely of neutrons.


neutron star

(astronomy) A degenerate star that has been so collapsed by gravity that its electrons and protons have been merged into neutrons by the intense pressure. The solid mass of neutrons is sometimes called neutronium.


伐

Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China

Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong

(Chinese astronomy) the name of three stars in the Three Stars mansion: 42 Orionis, θ2 Orionis and ι Orionis


AGB

en-noun

AGB (countable and uncountable, plural AGBs)

asymptotic giant branch
asymptotic giant branch#English

Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram#English

(astronomy) Initialism of asymptotic giant branch.; A classification of stars on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.

asymptotic giant branch

(astronomy) Ellipsis of AGB star.: A star in this classification.


star system

(astronomy) A group of stars (and possibly smaller bodies such as planets or asteroids) that orbit one another.


alpha

From the Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha), the first letter of the Greek alphabet, from the Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, “aleph”). Doublet of alif and aleph.

When interstellar travel becomes feasible, I plan to visit Alpha Centauri.

(astronomy) Designates some bright star, usually the brightest star, of a constellation.


decagram

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-decagram.wav

(metrology) An SI unit of mass equal to 10¹ grams. Symbol: dag


sonne

English: sun

Scots: sun

Yola: zin

From Old English sunne, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ.

14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 7-8.
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

The brightest and warmest celestial body, considered to be a planet in the Ptolemic system; the Sun.


glitch

glitch (countable and uncountable, plural glitches)

Probably from Yiddish גליטש (glitsh), from German glitschig (“slippy”), from glitschen (“to slide, glide, slip”) + -ig (“-y”). Related to gleiten (“glide”). Cognate with French glisser (“to slip, slide, skid”).
Popularized in the 1960s, by the US space program. Attested in 1962 by American astronaut John Glenn, in reference to spikes in electrical current.

Another term we adopted to describe some of our problems was "glitch." Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical circuit which takes place when the circuit suddenly has a new load put on it. You have probably noticed a dimming of lights in your home when you turn a switch or start the dryer or the television set.

1962, John Glenn, Into Orbit, London: Cassell:

(countable, informal, engineering) An unexpected behavior in an electrical signal, especially if the signal spontaneously returns to expected behavior after a period of time.


hound

houndes (plural)
hounden (plural)
hound (accusative nominative singular)
hounds (accusative nominative plural)
houndes (accusative nominative plural)
houndes (genitive singular)
hounde (genitive plural)
hounde (dative singular)
hounden (dative plural)

English: hound

Northumbrian: hoond, hund

Scots: hoond, hund

Canis lupus familiaris
Canis lupus familiaris#Translingual

dog, hound (The canid Canis lupus familiaris)

A pet dog; a dog kept for companionship.

(specifically) A male or fully-grown dog.


INS

(astronomy) Initialism of isolated neutron star.


accretion disk

(astrophysics) A structure formed by matter falling into a gravitational source such as a galaxy, black hole, or protostar.


cynosure

From French cynosure (“Ursa Minor; Polaris”), from Latin Cynosūra (“Ursa Minor”), from Ancient Greek Κυνόσουρα (Kunósoura, “Ursa Minor”, literally “dog’s tail”), from κυνός (kunós, “dog's”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).

der

(usually capitalized) Ursa Minor or Polaris, the North Star, used as a guide by navigators.


stella

la-noun

stēlla f (genitive stēllae); first declension

stēlla (canonical feminine)
stēllae (genitive)
stēlla (nominative singular)
stēllae (nominative plural)
stēllae (genitive singular)
stēllārum (genitive plural)
stēllae (dative singular)
stēllīs (dative plural)
stēllam (accusative singular)
stēllās (accusative plural)
stēllā (ablative singular)
stēllīs (ablative plural)
stēlla (singular vocative)
stēllae (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: steauã

Istro-Romanian: ste

Megleno-Romanian: steau̯ă

Romanian: stea

Dalmatian:

stala, stalla

Italo-Romance:

Corsican: stella, stedda, stidda

Gallurese: stedda, istella, stella

Italian: stella, Stella

→ Sardinian: istella, stella

Neapolitan: stella

Sassarese: isthella, sthella

desctree

Sicilian: stiḍḍa, stidda (eye dialect), steḍḍa, stella (misspelled and Italianized)
Italian: Stidda
Maltese: stilla

q

many via <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">stēla</i>

Padanian: (many via stēla)

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: strèla

Lombard: stela

Ligurian: stela

Piedmontese: stèila, steila

Friulian: stele

Istriot: stila

Ladin: stëila

Romansch: staila, steila, stéla

Venetan: steła

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: isteddu, steddu m

all via <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">stēla</i>

Gallo-Romance: (all via stēla)

Catalan: estela, estel

Franco-Provençal: ètêla

Old French: estoile (see there for further descendants)

Occitan: estela

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: estrela

Asturian: estrella

Extremaduran: estrella

Leonese: estrella

Mirandese: streilha

Old Galician-Portuguese: estrela (see there for further descendants)

Old Spanish: estrella (see there for further descendants)

→ Danish: Stella

→ Dutch: Stella

→ English: stella, Stella

→ Esperanto: stelo
Ido: stelo

→ Faroese: Stella

→ German: Stella

→ Icelandic: Stella

→ Interlingua: stella

desctree

→ Old Occitan: stella
Occitan: estela, estiala
Occitan: Estela
→ French: Estelle

→ Spanish: Estela

→ Swedish: Stella

→ Volapük: stel

[ˈs̠t̪eːlːʲä]

From Proto-Italic *stērlā, diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

stēla

late, attested in Anonymous Valesianus II

(literal) a star; (poetic) a constellation

a star; (poetic) a constellation
a wandering star, a planet


Capella

(astronomy): A bright double star in the constellation Auriga; Alpha (α) Aurigae.

العَيُّوق

the brightest star in the constellation Auriga


sidus

la-noun

sīdus n (genitive sīderis); third declension

sīdus (canonical neuter)
sīderis (genitive)
sīdus (nominative singular)
sīdera (nominative plural)
sīderis (genitive singular)
sīderum (genitive plural)
sīderī (dative singular)
sīderibus (dative plural)
sīdus (accusative singular)
sīdera (accusative plural)
sīdere (ablative singular)
sīderibus (ablative plural)
sīdus (singular vocative)
sīdera (plural vocative)

[ˈs̠iːd̪ʊs̠]

Tentatively thought to derive from a Proto-Italic *sīþos (“mark, target”), with a putative semantic shift (from hunters' jargon) from "target" > "star". Further origin unclear, with multiple theories proposed:
* Some derive this from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd- (“sweat”), whence Latin sūdor, Ancient Greek ἱδρώς (hidrṓs), English sweat; however there are phonetic problems, most notably the initial /s/ in Greek instead of expected */h/.
* Rix, connecting the word to Ancient Greek ῑ̓θῠ́ς (īthús, “straight, just”) and Sanskrit साध् (sādh, “to go straight to a goal”), derives the terms from a Proto-Indo-European *seHdʰ- (“to achieve a goal”), and the Latin from a reduplicative form *si-sHdʰ-u- > *sisdʰu- > *sizdu- > *sīdu-. This is semantically tenuous.
* Compare Ancient Greek σίδηρος (sídēros, “iron”). This is semantically unconvincing.
* Possibly borrowed from a substrate.
* Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *sh₂i-dʰh₁-o- (“binding”), from *sh₂ey- (“to bind, tie, fasten”), whence saeculum (“age, race, generation”). De Vaan tentatively prefers this derivation.


-ar

Clipping of star.; modelled after the earlier coinages pulsar and quasar.

(astronomy) Used to form names of star types, such as magnetar, collapsar, etc.


aster

la-noun

astēr m (genitive asteris); third declension

astēr (canonical masculine)
asteris (genitive)
astēr (nominative singular)
asterēs (nominative plural)
asteris (genitive singular)
asterum (genitive plural)
asterī (dative singular)
asteribus (dative plural)
astera (accusative singular)
asterem (accusative singular)
asterēs (accusative plural)
astere (ablative singular)
asteribus (ablative plural)
astēr (singular vocative)
asterēs (plural vocative)

desctree

→ English: aster
→ Cebuano: aster
→ Esperanto: astero

→ German: Aster
→ Esperanto: astero
→ Ukrainian: а́йстра (ájstra)

→ Middle French: aster

French: aster
→ Romanian: aster

desc

Translingual: Aster, Thalassianthus aster

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). See also Latin astrum and the inherited stēlla.


tala

Uncertain. Possibly from either:
* From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talaq.
* From Sanskrit तारा (tārā, “star”). Possible doublet of estrelya.
Compare Balinese ᬢᬭᬵ (tala) and Kapampangan tala.

(astronomy, strictly) morning star; any bright star (except the Sun)


dwarf

From Middle English dwergh, dwerw, dwerf, from Old English dweorg, from Proto-West Germanic *dwerg, from Proto-Germanic *dwergaz.
Cognate with Scots dwerch; Old High German twerc (German Zwerg); Old Norse dvergr (Swedish dvärg); Old Frisian dwirg (West Frisian dwerch); Middle Low German dwerch, dwarch, twerg (German Low German Dwarg, Dwarch); Middle Dutch dwerch, dworch (Dutch dwerg).
The Modern English noun has undergone complex phonetic changes. The form dwarf is the regular continuation of Old English dweorg, but the plural dweorgas would have given rise to dwarrows and the oblique stem dweorge- would have led to dwery. These forms are sometimes found as the nominative singular in Middle English texts and in English dialects. A parallel case is that of Old English burg giving burgh, borough, burrow, bury.

dwarf standing on the shoulders of giants


corona

en-noun

corona (plural coronas or coronae or (obsolete) coronæ)

coronas (plural)
coronae (plural)
coronæ (obsolete plural)

→ Japanese: コロナ (korona)

The noun is borrowed from Latin corōna (“crown; garland, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “type of crown; curved object (door handle, tip of a bow, stern of a ship, etc.)”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). The English word is a doublet of crown, korona, koruna, krona, króna, and krone.
The plural form coronae is borrowed from Latin corōnae.
The verb is derived from the noun.

laki

upper or crownlike portion of certain parts of the body

kruunu

appendage of an organism that resembles a crown or corona

[page 49] Upon this true "mackarel sky" was depicted one of those glorious coronæ, only seen at great elevations or in high Latitudes. […] [page 50] The corona was composed of two colours, violet on the edge nearest to the sun and red on the outer edge, the two colours blending together and forming a neutral tint in the middle of the corona; the order here observed with regard to the colours is similar to that observed in the rainbow.

1854, Walter Stanhope Sherwill, “Notes upon Some Atmospherical Phenomena Observed at Darjiling in the Himalayah Mountains, during the Summer of 1852”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume XXIII, number LXV, Calcutta: […] J. Thomas, Baptist Mission Press, published 1855, →OCLC, pages 49 and 50:

[page 214, paragraph 423] The sun and moon, when partially covered by light, fleecy clouds, are often seen encircled by one or more colored rings, which are called coronæ. […] In order to examine coronæ about the sun, it is best to view them by reflection from a blackened mirror, by which means the brilliancy of the sun's light is very much reduced. […] [page 215, paragraph 425] Coronæ are produced by the diffraction of the rays of light in their passage through the small intervals between the particles of condensed vapor in a cloud.

1868, Elias Loomis, “Optical Meteorology”, in A Treatise on Meteorology. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section IV (Coronæ), pages 214 and 215:

The increasing light eventually erases the moon's glowing corona, her pendant chandelier of light pales into insignificance as the new day breaks.

2013, Alfred Grossmith Mason, “14 September 1942”, in Julie Grossmith Deltrice, editor, Arctic Warriors: A Personal Account of Convoy PQ18, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Maritime, Pen & Sword Books, →ISBN, page 55:

(meteorology) A circle or set of circles visible around a bright celestial object, especially the Sun or the Moon, attributable to an optical phenomenon produced by the diffraction of its light by small water droplets or tiny ice crystals.


The lunar crescent is an ancient symbol for the moon.
Its orientation varies between increscent and decrescent.

rarely 🌙. In the medieval Marcianus graecus 299 manuscript

(astronomy, astrology, rare) The last quarter of the Moon.


supernova

en-noun

supernova (plural supernovae or supernovæ or supernovas)

supernovae (plural)
supernovæ (plural)
supernovas (plural)

(astronomy) A powerful and bright explosion of a massive star, which afterwards becomes a neutron star or a black hole, or is destroyed.


sta

God i mekim kamap tupela bikpela lait. Bikpela em san bilong givim lait long de, na liklik em mun bilong givim lait long nait. Na God i mekim kamap ol sta tu.

1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:15:


Aldebaran

From Arabic اَلدَّبَرَان (ad-dabarān, “the follower”), named so because it follows the Pleiades.

der

اَلدَّبَرَان

The kingly brilliancy of Sirius pierced the eye with a steely glitter, the star called Capella was yellow, Aldebaran and Betelgueux shone with a fiery red.

1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:

The brightest object depicted is Jupiter which stands near the red giant star Aldebaran in Taurus.

2012 December 9, Alan Pickup, The Guardian:

(astronomy) One of the brightest stars in the sky, now recognised to be a binary star in the constellation Taurus (alpha (α) Tauri); an orange giant, 68 light years from Earth.


Aldebaran

Tour à tour bleue et rose comme l’astre trompeur d’Aldebaran, c’était Adrienne ou Sylvie, – c’étaient les deux moitiés d’un seul amour.

1854, Gérard de Nerval, “Sylvie”, in Les Filles du feu:

Blue and pink by turns like the deceptive star of Aldebaran, it was Adrienne and Sylvie – they were the two halves of a single love.


Aldebaran

From Arabic اَلدَّبَرَان (ad-dabarān, “the follower”) (because it follows the Pleiades).

اَلدَّبَرَان


Aldebaran

Aldebaran (nominative singular)
Aldebarana (genitive singular)
Aldebaranowi (dative singular)
Aldebarana (accusative singular)
Aldebaranem (instrumental singular)
Aldebaranie (locative singular)
Aldebaranie (singular vocative)

Derived from Arabic اَلدَّبَرَان (ad-dabarān).

اَلدَّبَرَان

der+

اَلدَّبَرَان


nova remnant

(astronomy) The ejected material left behind by novae.


Betelgeuse

Ultimately from an alteration of the Arabic يَد الجَوْزَاء (yad al-jawzāʔ, “hand of the central one”), from يَد (yad, “hand”) + جَوْزَاء (jawzāʔ, “central one”).
Jawzā, ‘the central one’, initially referred to Gemini among the Arabs, but at some point they decided to refer to Orion by that name. During the Middle Ages the first character of the name, yā’ (ي, with two underdots), was misread as a bā’ (ب, with one underdot) when transliterating into Latin, and Yad al-Jauza became Bedalgeuze. This was then misinterpreted during the Renaissance as deriving from a corruption of an original Arabic form إِبْط الجَوْزَاء (ʔibṭ al-jawzāʔ, “armpit of the central one”).

bor

يَد الجَوْزَاء

Even if you don’t know it by name, the red supergiant star Betelgeuse is one of the most familiar sights in the heavens above—a gleaming ruddy dot at the shoulder of the constellation Orion. Although already quite difficult to overlook, Betelgeuse has become even more eye-catching across the past few years because of major changes in its appearance—unexpected fluctuations in its brightness that remain poorly understood.

2023 May 15, Meghan Bartels, “Betelguese’s Brightening Raises Hopes for a Supernova Spectacle”, in Scientific American, archived from the original on 2023-05-15:

(astronomy) A bright-red supergiant intrinsic variable star, the second brightest star in the constellation Orion; Alpha (α) Orionis. It is the tenth brightest star in the nighttime, and one of the largest stars known.


Betelgeuse

Ultimately from an alteration of the Arabic يَد الجَوْزَاء (yad al-jawzāʔ, “hand of the central one”), from يَد (yad, “hand”) + جَوْزَاء (jawzāʔ, “central one”).

يَد الجَوْزَاء


α

alpha

for names of this symbol in other language

(astronomy) Used to identify some bright star, usually the brightest star, of a constellation, for instance α-Centauri.


red giant

(astronomy) A large red coloured star with a lower surface temperature than many stars, being at the final stage of moderately massive main-sequence stars.


double star

(astronomy) Two stars which form a stellar system, such that they orbit the point of equilibrium of their gravitational fields; a binary star.

(astronomy) Two stars that appear to be one when seen with the naked eye, either because they orbit one another (binary stars) or happen to be in the same line of sight even though they are separated by a great distance (optical binaries).


Cl

(astronomy) A cluster of stars — a star cluster.


Castor

(astronomy) A double star in the constellation Gemini; alpha (α) Geminorum.


Hamal

From Arabic رَأْس الْحَمَل (raʔs al-ḥamal, “head of the sheep”).

رَأْس الْحَمَل

(astronomy) An orange giant and the brightest star in the constellation Aries; alpha (α) Arietis.


Hamal

Borrowed from Arabic رَأْس الْحَمَل (raʔs al-ḥamal, “head of the sheep”).

bor+

رَأْس الْحَمَل

Hamal, the brightest star in the constellation of Aries.


Atlas

en-proper noun

Atlas (countable and uncountable, plural Atlases)

From Latin Ā̆tlās, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), either from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“bear, undergo, endure”) or of Pre-Greek origin.

der

An unincorporated community in Pike County, Illinois.

A placename:
A place in the United States:
A township in Genesee County, Michigan.

An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Texas.

An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia.

An unincorporated community in Laketown, Polk County, Wisconsin.


Sirrah

(astronomy) Sirrah, synonymous name of Alpheratz (a binary star)


Lea

a female given name from Hawaiian or originating from the Bible, of biblical and mythological origin


Spica

Latin spīca virginis "Virgo's ear of grain"

The constellation Virgo is a Y-shaped group, of which α, the star at the foot, is the well-known Spica, a star of the first magnitude.

1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921:

(astronomy) A binary star in the constellation Virgo; alpha (α) Virginis.


Spica

Spica (nominative singular)
Spicy (genitive singular)
Spicy (dative singular)
Spicę (accusative singular)
Spicą (instrumental singular)
Spicy (locative singular)
Spico (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin spīca virginis.

lbor

(astronomy) Spica (blue-white giant star)


Regulus

(astronomy) A star in the constellation Leo; alpha (α) Leonis.


Regulus

Regulus (nominative singular)
Regulusa (genitive singular)
Regulusowi (dative singular)
Regulusa (accusative singular)
Regulusem (instrumental singular)
Regulusie (locative singular)
Regulusie (singular vocative)

(astronomy) Regulus (blue-white subgiant star)


Polaris

From Latin stēlla polāris (“pole star”).

(astronomy) α Ursae Minoris, a trinary star in the constellation Ursa Minor located near the north celestial pole for the last 1500 years.


Polaris

(astronomy) Polaris (star in the north celestial pole)


Wo

(astronomy) the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, the Richard van der Riet Woolley expansion


white dwarf

(astronomy) A dying star of low or medium mass, more solid and dense but dimmer than the Sun.


звезда

ru-noun+

звезда́ • (zvezdá) f inan (genitive звезды́, nominative plural звёзды, genitive plural звёзд, relational adjective звёздный, diminutive звёздочка)

звезда́ (canonical)
zvezdá (romanization)
звезды́ (genitive)
звёзды (nominative plural)
звёзд (genitive plural)
звёздный (adjective relational)
звёздочка (diminutive)
звезда́ (nominative singular)
звёзды (nominative plural)
звезды́ (genitive singular)
звёзд (genitive plural)
звезде́ (dative singular)
звёздам (dative plural)
звезду́ (accusative singular)
звёзды (accusative plural)
звездо́й (instrumental singular)
звездо́ю (instrumental singular)
звёздами (instrumental plural)
звезде́ (prepositional singular)
звёздах (plural prepositional)

From Old East Slavic звѣзда (zvězda), from Proto-Slavic *gvězda, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źwaisdā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwoysdʰ-.

па́дающая звезда́

звезда́ пе́рвой величины́

International Space Station
International Space Station

Zvezda (module of the International Space Station)


PSO

(Pakistan) Abbreviation of Pakistan State Oil.


PSR

primary surveillance radar
w:primary surveillance radar

(aviation) Initialism of primary surveillance radar.

Initialism of police service representative, an LAPD dispatcher.

(aviation, navigation) Initialism of point of safe return.


T Tauri star

Named after the prototype star of its class, T Tauri.

(astronomy) Any of a class of young visible stars having optical variability; they are often surrounded by a protoplanetary disc.


Hundsstern

de-proper noun

Hundsstern m (proper noun, strong, genitive Hundssterns)


Polarstern

Polarstern m (proper noun, strong, genitive Polarsterns)

/poˈlaːɐ̯ˌʃtɛɐ̯n/


estrella

Papiamentu: strea

→ Sardinian: streglia (Campidanese)

→ Tagalog: estrelya

Inherited from Old Spanish estrella (compare Galician estrela, Portuguese estrela and Catalan estrella), from Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines


NN

(astronomy) the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, the expansion called the Preliminary Version of the Third Catalogue of Nearby Stars


Vega

From Medieval Latin, from Arabic وَاقِع (wāqiʕ, “falling”), from the expression النَّسْر الوَاقِع (an-nasr al-wāqiʕ, “falling eagle”). The active participle وَاقِع (wāqiʕ) derives from the verb وَقَعَ (waqaʕa, “fall, drop, tumble, alight, pounce”).

(astronomy) The brightest star in the constellation Lyra; Alpha (α) Lyrae. It forms one corner of the Summer Triangle.

اَلنَّسْر اَلْوَاقِع

the brightest star in the constellation Lyra

織女星

おりひめせい, Orihime-sei, しょくじょせい, Shokujo-sei


Vega

From Arabic وَاقِع (wāqiʕ, “falling”), from the expression النَّسْر الوَاقِع (an-nasr al-wāqiʕ, “falling eagle”).


Vega

(astronomy) Vega (the star in the constellation of Lyra)


gravitational collapse

en-noun

gravitational collapse (countable and uncountable, plural gravitational collapses)

The stage in the evolution of a star in which the pressure of the star is insufficient to maintain it at a stable size, and its material falls inward under its own gravity, eventually forming a black hole or a neutron star, and sometimes accompanied by a supernova explosion.


red dwarf

(astronomy) A small, relatively cool star of the main sequence.


starquake

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Astronomers call the sudden changes in the neutron star starquakes. The energy released in a starquake is enormous and flows out from the star into the space surrounding it. After the 1969 starquake on the Crab pulsar, a wave of energy was seen to flow outwards, rippling through the centre of the Crab Nebula.

1985, Paul Murdin, Lesley Murdin, New Astronomy, page 131:

2000, Richard I. Epstein, Bennett Link, Starquake-Induced Glitches in Pulsars, Kwong-Sang Cheng H, F, Chau, K. L. Chan, K. C. Leung (editors), Stellar Astrophysics: Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Conference, page 96,
Starquakes in slowing neutron stars drive matter toward the magnetic poles, distort the star's shape, and excite precession.

2000, Carl Sagan, Jerome Agel, Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective [new edition of 1973, The Cosmic Connection], page 260,
Should the core be solid, starquakes are expected — a shifting of the matter under enormous stress in the interior of the star. Such starquakes should produce a discontinuous change in the period of rotation of the neutron star. Such changes, called "glitches," are observed.

(astronomy) A violent tremor or quake that occurs on or near the surface of a star, especially a collapsed star.


main sequence

Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

(astronomy) A major grouping of stars represented on a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram by a nearly uniform band of increasing luminosity with increasing surface temperature.


magnetar

Blend of magnet + pulsar. Analyzable as magnet + -ar.

This signal could be detected with Advanced LIGO-class detectors up to the distance of the Virgo cluster, where ≥ 1 yr⁻¹ magnetars are expected to form.

2007, S. Dall'Osso, L. Stella, “Newborn magnetars as sources of gravitational radiation: constraints from high energy observations of magnetar candidates”, in Silvia Zane, Roberto Turolla, Dany Page, editors, Isolated Neutron Stars: From the Surface to the Interior, page 119:

2008, W. Becker, F, Haberl, J Trümper, 14: Pulsars and Isolated Neutron Stars, Joachim E. Trümper, Günther Hasinger (editors), The Universe in X-Rays, page 193,
The radio-silent neutron stars include anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs), soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs), and “quiescent” neutron star candidates in SNRs. There is growing evidence that AXPs and SGRs are indeed magnetars (see [109] for a review).

One of most mysterious feature[s] of magnetars is their X-ray luminosities, which always exceed the rotational energy loss. Thus, the energy source of the radiation of magnetars is a mysterious question.

2011, Yukikatsu Terada, Tadayasu Dotani, “The International X-ray Observatiry and other X-ray missions, expectations for pulsar physics”, in Nanda Rea, Diego F. Torres, editors, High-Energy Emission from Pulsars and Their Systems: Proceedings of the First Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics, page 576:

(astronomy) A neutron star or pulsar with an extremely powerful magnetic field, especially those on which starquakes occur, thought to be the source of some gamma-ray bursts.


magnetar

magnetar (nominative singular)
magnetary (nominative plural)
magnetara (genitive singular)
magnetarów (genitive plural)
magnetarowi (dative singular)
magnetarom (dative plural)
magnetar (accusative singular)
magnetary (accusative plural)
magnetarem (instrumental singular)
magnetarami (instrumental plural)
magnetarze (locative singular)
magnetarach (locative plural)
magnetarze (singular vocative)
magnetary (plural vocative)

(astronomy) magnetar (neutron star or pulsar with an extremely powerful magnetic field, especially those on which starquakes occur, thought to be the source of some gamma-ray bursts)


pole star

From pole (“either of the two points on the Earth’s surface around which it rotates; similar points on any other rotating object”) + star, possibly a calque of Latin stēllam polārem (“the Pole Star”).

calque

Polaris is currently the pole star of planet Earth.

Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years?

1837 August 31, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar. An Oration Delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837.”, in J[ames] E[lliot] Cabot, editor, Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (Emerson’s Complete Works; I), Riverside edition, London: The Waverley Book Company, published 1883, →OCLC, page 84:

(astronomy) The star visible to the naked eye which was in the past, is now, or will be in the future nearest a celestial pole of a planet.

poolster

star visible to the naked eye which was, is, or will be nearest a celestial pole of a planet


pulsar

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Blend of pulsating + (radio) star, patterned after quasar. Coined by British astronomers Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell in 1968, and first used in print in The Daily Telegraph. Analyzable as pulse + -ar

coin

(astronomy) A rotating neutron star that emits radio pulses periodically.

Antony Hewish
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
The Daily Telegraph
en:pulsar


pulsar

pulsar (nominative singular)
pulsary (nominative plural)
pulsara (genitive singular)
pulsarów (genitive plural)
pulsarowi (dative singular)
pulsarom (dative plural)
pulsar (accusative singular)
pulsary (accusative plural)
pulsarem (instrumental singular)
pulsarami (instrumental plural)
pulsarze (locative singular)
pulsarach (locative plural)
pulsarze (singular vocative)
pulsary (plural vocative)

(astronomy) pulsar (rotating neutron star that emits radio pulses periodically)


α-Centauri

translingual α (“brightest”) + translingual Centauri (“a star in that constellation”)

af

(astronomy) The brightest star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus.


blue giant

(astronomy) a very hot and very luminous star that emits visible light in the blue portion of the spectrum


blue supergiant

en-noun

blue supergiant (plural blue supergiants)

(astronomy) A very large, hot and luminous star; a large blue giant.


protostar

/ˈpɹəʊtə(ʊ)stɑː/

-əʊtəʊstɑː(ɹ)

-əʊtəstɑː(ɹ)

From proto- + star. Compare later protostellar.

(astronomy) A collection of gas and dust in space with high temperature that usually grows to the point of beginning nuclear fusion and becoming a star.


Cepheid variable

Cepheid variable (plural Cepheid variables)

From Latin Delta Cephei, the first such star identified. From Cepheus, the name of the constellation in which such stars were first discovered. From being a star with variable brightness.

intrinsic brightness
intrinsic brightness

(astronomy) A radially pulsating (expanding and contracting) variable star with a regular period and known relationship between period and intrinsic brightness.


chromosphere

(astronomy) The faint pink extension of a star's atmospheric envelope between the corona and the photosphere

chromosfeer

the faint pink extension of a star's atmospheric envelope


Alrisha

Borrowed from Arabic الرِّشَاء (ar-rišāʔ, literally “the cord, rope”).

bor

(astronomy) A binary star in the constellation Pisces; alpha (α) Piscium.


Zubenelgenubi

From Arabic الزُّبَانَى الْجَنُوبِيّ (az-zubānā l-janūbiyy, “the Southern Claw”).

der

الزُّبَانَى الْجَنُوبِيّ

(astronomy) A binary star in the constellation Libra; alpha (α) Librae.


Zubeneschamali

Arabic الزُّبَانَى الشَّمَالِيّ (az-zubānā š-šamāliyy, “the Northern Claw”).

uder

الزُّبَانَى الشَّمَالِيّ

(astronomy) The brightest star in the constellation Libra; beta (β) Librae.

اَلزُّبَانَى اَلشَّمَالِيّ

second brightest star in the constellation Libra


Pollux

From Latin Pollūx, from Ancient Greek Πολυδεύκης (Poludeúkēs).

(astronomy) A star in the constellation Gemini; beta (β) Geminorum.


Antares

Borrowed from Latin Antares, from Ancient Greek Ἀντάρης (Antárēs, “rival to Ares”).

der

Alpha Scorpii (α Sco), the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius. It is a M type red giant, and is a binary with a B type companion visible in greenish.


Antares

de-proper noun

Antares m (proper noun, strong, genitive Antares')


Antares

Antares (nominative singular)
Antaresa (genitive singular)
Antaresowi (dative singular)
Antaresa (accusative singular)
Antaresem (instrumental singular)
Antaresie (locative singular)
Antaresie (singular vocative)


Antares

Antares (brightest star in the constellation Scorpio)


Arcturus

/ɑɹkˈtjʊəɹəs/

When humanity activated the Charon Mass Relay in 2149, it led to Arcturus, 36 light years from Sol, Earth's sun. Arcturus is the third brightest star seen from Earth. It is an ancient red giant from the generation born before Sol.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Stations: Arcturus Station Codex entry:

(astronomy) A bright yellow-orange star in the constellation Boötes; Alpha (α) Boötis. It is the fourth-brightest star in the night sky.


Altair

/ˈɔːltɛə(ɹ)/

/ˌɑltaɪˈɪə(ɹ)/

From the Arabic اَلنَّسْر اَلطَّائِر (an-nasr aṭ-ṭāʔir, “the flying eagle”), from نَسْر (nasr, “eagle”) + طَائِر (ṭāʔir, “flying”).

der

اَلنَّسْر اَلطَّائِر

af

(astronomy) The brightest star in the constellation Aquila; Alpha (α) Aquilae. It is the twelfth brightest star in the sky, and forms one corner of the Summer Triangle.


Altair

From Arabic اَلنَّسْر اَلطَّائِر (an-nasr aṭ-ṭāʔir, “the flying eagle”), from نَسْر (nasr, “eagle”) + طَائِر (ṭāʔir, “flying”).

der

اَلنَّسْر اَلطَّائِر


Altair

(astronomy) Altair (white main-sequence star)


Altair

(astronomy) Altair (star in the constellation Aquila)


Proxima Centauri

From Latin proximus (“nearest, next”) and centaurī (“of the constellation Centaurus”).

(astronomy) A red dwarf star, part of the Alpha Centauri system and the nearest star to Earth's solar system.


spectral class

en-noun

spectral class (plural spectral classes)

(astronomy) A classification of stars depending on their spectra and luminosity; usually one of O, B, A, F, G, K, M.


Albireo

Probably from the phrase "ab ireo" in the title for the constellation Cygnus in the star catalog of the Almagest, as translated by Gerard of Cremona. Christian Ludwig Ideler speculated that "ireo" referred to the plant called irio. Later, people apparently considered "abireo" to refer to the star, and as a misprint of an Arabic term, and transcribed it as al-bireo.

(astronomy) A binary star in the constellation Cygnus; Beta (β) Cygni.


Thuban

From Arabic ثُعْبَان (ṯuʕbān, “snake”), the Arabic name for the constellation Alpha Draconis being الثُعْبَان (aṯ-ṯuʕbān).

(astronomy) α Draconis, a white giant star in the constellation Draco which served as the North Star from about 3942 to 1793 BC.


Thuban

Thuban (nominative singular)
Thubana (genitive singular)
Thubanowi (dative singular)
Thubana (accusative singular)
Thubanem (instrumental singular)
Thubanie (locative singular)
Thubanie (singular vocative)

Thuban (α Draconis, the former Pole Star)


Alnair

From Arabic النَّائِر (an-nāʔir, “the bright [one]”).

der

(astronomy) A bluish-white star in the constellation Grus; Alpha (α) Gruis.

(astronomy) A bluish-white binary star in the constellation Centaurus; Zeta (ζ) Centauri.


Alnair

Alnair, a star in the constellation of Grus


Mira

Named by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1662, from Latin mīrus (“wonderful, surprising”).

The favoured explanation, adopted by Maraldi, was based on the assumption that the star was rotating and composed of two different parts, a bright and a dark region; if so, it might only be visible when the bright region turned towards Earth. Whatever the explanation, Mira had puzzled the astronomers because of its random character and the irregular periods between its observations.

2008, Helge Kragh, The Moon that Wasn't: The Saga of Venus' Spurious Satellite, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 80:

(astronomy) A binary star in the constellation Cetus, Omicron (ο) Ceti. The system contains a variable red giant and a white dwarf. Its brightness varies from a magnitude 2 at its brightest to a magnitude 10 at its dimmest.


Mira

Mira (nominative singular)
Mirat (nominative plural)
Mira (accusative nominative singular)
Mirat (accusative nominative plural)
Miran (accusative genitive singular)
Mirat (accusative genitive plural)
Miran (genitive singular)
Mirojen (genitive plural)
Mirain (genitive plural rare)
Miraa (partitive singular)
Miroja (partitive plural)
Mirassa (inessive singular)
Miroissa (inessive plural)
Mirasta (elative singular)
Miroista (elative plural)
Miraan (illative singular)
Miroihin (illative plural)
Miralla (adessive singular)
Miroilla (adessive plural)
Miralta (ablative singular)
Miroilta (ablative plural)
Miralle (allative singular)
Miroille (allative plural)
Mirana (essive singular)
Miroina (essive plural)
Miraksi (singular translative)
Miroiksi (plural translative)
Miratta (abessive singular)
Miroitta (abessive plural)
Miroin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Mirani (nominative singular)
Mirani (nominative plural)
Mirani (accusative nominative singular)
Mirani (accusative nominative plural)
Mirani (accusative genitive singular)
Mirani (accusative genitive plural)
Mirani (genitive singular)
Mirojeni (genitive plural)
Miraini (genitive plural rare)
Miraani (partitive singular)
Mirojani (partitive plural)
Mirassani (inessive singular)
Miroissani (inessive plural)
Mirastani (elative singular)
Miroistani (elative plural)
Miraani (illative singular)
Miroihini (illative plural)
Mirallani (adessive singular)
Miroillani (adessive plural)
Miraltani (ablative singular)
Miroiltani (ablative plural)
Miralleni (allative singular)
Miroilleni (allative plural)
Miranani (essive singular)
Miroinani (essive plural)
Mirakseni (singular translative)
Miroikseni (plural translative)
Mirattani (abessive singular)
Miroittani (abessive plural)
Miroineni (comitative plural)
Mirasi (nominative singular)
Mirasi (nominative plural)
Mirasi (accusative nominative singular)
Mirasi (accusative nominative plural)
Mirasi (accusative genitive singular)
Mirasi (accusative genitive plural)
Mirasi (genitive singular)
Mirojesi (genitive plural)
Miraisi (genitive plural rare)
Miraasi (partitive singular)
Mirojasi (partitive plural)
Mirassasi (inessive singular)
Miroissasi (inessive plural)
Mirastasi (elative singular)
Miroistasi (elative plural)
Miraasi (illative singular)
Miroihisi (illative plural)
Mirallasi (adessive singular)
Miroillasi (adessive plural)
Miraltasi (ablative singular)
Miroiltasi (ablative plural)
Mirallesi (allative singular)
Miroillesi (allative plural)
Miranasi (essive singular)
Miroinasi (essive plural)
Miraksesi (singular translative)
Miroiksesi (plural translative)
Mirattasi (abessive singular)
Miroittasi (abessive plural)
Miroinesi (comitative plural)
Miramme (nominative singular)
Miramme (nominative plural)
Miramme (accusative nominative singular)
Miramme (accusative nominative plural)
Miramme (accusative genitive singular)
Miramme (accusative genitive plural)
Miramme (genitive singular)
Mirojemme (genitive plural)
Miraimme (genitive plural rare)
Miraamme (partitive singular)
Mirojamme (partitive plural)
Mirassamme (inessive singular)
Miroissamme (inessive plural)
Mirastamme (elative singular)
Miroistamme (elative plural)
Miraamme (illative singular)
Miroihimme (illative plural)
Mirallamme (adessive singular)
Miroillamme (adessive plural)
Miraltamme (ablative singular)
Miroiltamme (ablative plural)
Mirallemme (allative singular)
Miroillemme (allative plural)
Miranamme (essive singular)
Miroinamme (essive plural)
Miraksemme (singular translative)
Miroiksemme (plural translative)
Mirattamme (abessive singular)
Miroittamme (abessive plural)
Miroinemme (comitative plural)
Miranne (nominative singular)
Miranne (nominative plural)
Miranne (accusative nominative singular)
Miranne (accusative nominative plural)
Miranne (accusative genitive singular)
Miranne (accusative genitive plural)
Miranne (genitive singular)
Mirojenne (genitive plural)
Mirainne (genitive plural rare)
Miraanne (partitive singular)
Mirojanne (partitive plural)
Mirassanne (inessive singular)
Miroissanne (inessive plural)
Mirastanne (elative singular)
Miroistanne (elative plural)
Miraanne (illative singular)
Miroihinne (illative plural)
Mirallanne (adessive singular)
Miroillanne (adessive plural)
Miraltanne (ablative singular)
Miroiltanne (ablative plural)
Mirallenne (allative singular)
Miroillenne (allative plural)
Mirananne (essive singular)
Miroinanne (essive plural)
Miraksenne (singular translative)
Miroiksenne (plural translative)
Mirattanne (abessive singular)
Miroittanne (abessive plural)
Miroinenne (comitative plural)
Miransa (nominative singular)
Miransa (nominative plural)
Miransa (accusative nominative singular)
Miransa (accusative nominative plural)
Miransa (accusative genitive singular)
Miransa (accusative genitive plural)
Miransa (genitive singular)
Mirojensa (genitive plural)
Mirainsa (genitive plural rare)
Miraansa (partitive singular)
Mirojaan (partitive plural)
Mirojansa (partitive plural)
Mirassaan (inessive singular)
Mirassansa (inessive singular)
Miroissaan (inessive plural)
Miroissansa (inessive plural)
Mirastaan (elative singular)
Mirastansa (elative singular)
Miroistaan (elative plural)
Miroistansa (elative plural)
Miraansa (illative singular)
Miroihinsa (illative plural)
Mirallaan (adessive singular)
Mirallansa (adessive singular)
Miroillaan (adessive plural)
Miroillansa (adessive plural)
Miraltaan (ablative singular)
Miraltansa (ablative singular)
Miroiltaan (ablative plural)
Miroiltansa (ablative plural)
Miralleen (allative singular)
Mirallensa (allative singular)
Miroilleen (allative plural)
Miroillensa (allative plural)
Miranaan (essive singular)
Miranansa (essive singular)
Miroinaan (essive plural)
Miroinansa (essive plural)
Mirakseen (singular translative)
Miraksensa (singular translative)
Miroikseen (plural translative)
Miroiksensa (plural translative)
Mirattaan (abessive singular)
Mirattansa (abessive singular)
Miroittaan (abessive plural)
Miroittansa (abessive plural)
Miroineen (comitative plural)
Miroinensa (comitative plural)

A 20th century invention, borrowed from the Slavic diminutive of female names containing the element *mirъ (“peace”); also explained as a short form of Mirjam, or derived from the Latin name of the star.


Mira

de-proper noun

Mira m (proper noun, strong, genitive Miras)

Miras (genitive)
Mira (nominative singular)
Miras (genitive singular)
Mira (dative singular)
Mira (accusative singular)

Astronomen haben an dem schon seit 400 Jahren bekannten Stern Mira eine überraschende Entdeckung gemacht: Der Himmelskörper im Sternbild Walfisch zieht einen kometenartigen Schweif hinter sich her. Er ist mit 13 Lichtjahren mehrere tausend Mal so lang wie unser Sonnensystem. Eine solche Beobachtung sei bisher noch nie gelungen, schreibt das Team um Mark Seibert von der Carnegie Institution im Fachblatt "Nature".

2007 August 16, “Wundersamer Sprinter im All entdeckt”, in Der Spiegel:


Deneb

From Arabic ذَنَب الدَّجَاجَة (ḏanab ad-dajāja, “hen's tail”), from ذَنَب (ḏanab, “tail”) + دَجَاجَة (dajāja, “hen”).

der

ذَنَب الدَّجَاجَة

(astronomy) A blue giant star in the constellation Cygnus; Alpha (α) Cygni. It forms one corner of the Summer Triangle. Deneb is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and one of the most luminous stars known.


Deneb

Deneb (nominative singular)
Deneba (genitive singular)
Denebowi (dative singular)
Deneba (accusative singular)
Denebem (instrumental singular)
Denebie (locative singular)
Denebie (singular vocative)


Deneb

(astronomy) Deneb (blue giant in Cygnus)


Alshain

From Arabic اَلشَّاهِين (aš-šāhīn, “the falcon”), from Persian شاهین (šâhin, “falcon / pointer of a scale”).

Beta Aquilae, a star in the constellation Aquila


Alnitak

From Arabic النِطَاق (an-niṭāq, “the girdle”).

(astronomy) A triple star in the constellation of Orion; Zeta (ζ) Orionis, one of the three stars that form Orion's Belt.


Alnitak

Alnitak, a star in the constellation of Orion


Deneb Kaitos

From Arabic ذَنَب اَلْكَيْتُوس (ḏanab al-kaytūs, “Cetus's tail”), from ذنب (“tail”) + an Arabisation of Cetus.

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ذَنَب اَلْكَيْتُوس

The brightest star in the constellation Cetus.


Denebokab

From Arabic ذَنَب اَلْعُقَاب (ḏanab al-ʕuqāb, “the eagle's tail”), from ذَنَب (ḏanab, “tail”) + عُقَاب (ʕuqāb, “eagle”).

ذَنَب اَلْعُقَاب

Eta Aquilae, a supergiant star in the constellation of Aquila.


Alphard

From Arabic الفَرْد (al-fard, “the solitary one”).

der

(astronomy) An orange giant star in the constellation of Hydra; Alpha (α) Hydrae.


Alphard

Alphard, the brightest star in the constellation of Hydra


Alderamin

From Arabic الذِّرَاع الْيَمِين (aḏ-ḏirāʕ al-yamīn, “the right arm”), from ذِرَاع (ḏirāʕ, “arm”) + يَمِين (yamīn, “right”).

الذِّرَاع الْيَمِين


Alderamin

الذِّرَاع الْيَمِين

Alderamin, a star in the constellation of Cepheus


Algenib

From Arabic الجَانِب (al-jānib) "the side".

[γ, 3, white, erroneously placed by Tycho in Pisces marks the extreme tip of the Horse's wing, so that its name Algenib has been considered as derived from Al Janāh, the Wing, but it probably is from Al Janb, the Side. It has sometimes been written Algemo.]

1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and Their Meanings, New York: G. E. Stechert, page 326:

(astronomy) A β Cephei variable subgiant, visible as a third-magnitude blue-white star in the northern constellation of Pegasus, one of four stars in the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.

(astronomy) Synonym of Mirfak (the star α Persei).


Diphda

From Arabic الضِفْدَع الثَانِي (aḍ-ḍifdaʕ aṯ-ṯānī, “the second frog”), from ضِفْدَع (ḍifdaʕ, “frog”) + ثَانٍ (ṯānin, “second”).

bor

الضِفْدَع الثَانِي

The brightest star in the constellation of Cetus.


Diphda

Borrowed from Arabic ضِفْدَع (ḍifdaʕ, “frog”).

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Diphda, the brightest star in the constellation of Cetus


Alkaid

From Arabic القَائِدُ لبَنَاتِ النَعْش (“the leader of the girls at the bier”), from قَائِد (qāʔid, “leader”) + بَنَات (banāt) plural of بِنْت (bint, “girl”) + نَعْش (naʕš, “bier”). With reference to the mourners at the funeral of Calypso (who became the Great Bear).

der

القَائِدُ لبَنَاتِ النَعْش

(astronomy) A star in the constellation of Ursa Major, the easternmost star of the Plough.


Alkaid

From Arabic القَائِدُ البَنَاتِ النَعْش (al-qāʔidu l-banāti n-naʕš, literally “the leader of the girls at the bier”).

القَائِدُ البَنَاتِ النَعْش

Alkaid, the third brightest star in the constellation of Ursa Major


Algiedi

From Arabic اَلْجَدْي (al-jady, “the kid-goat”).

Alpha Capricorni, a double star in the constellation of Capricorn.


Dschubba

From Arabic اَلْجَبْهَة (al-jabha, “the forehead”).


Dschubba

Dschubba, a binary star in the constellation of Scorpio.


Menkar

Arabic مَنْخَر (manḵar, “nostril (i.e. of the whale)”).

uder

Alpha Ceti, a red giant star in the constellation of Cetus


Elnath

From Arabic النَّطْح (an-naṭḥ, “the butting [one]”).

bor

(astronomy) The second-brightest star in the constellation of Taurus.


Elnath

Borrowed from Arabic النَطْح (an-naṭḥ, “the butting one”).

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Elnath, the second brightest star in the constellation of Taurus


Mintaka

From Arabic مِنْطَقَة (minṭaqa, “belt”).

(astronomy) A multiple star in the constellation of Orion; Delta (δ) Orionis, one of the three stars that form Orion's Belt.


Denebola

From the Arabic ذَنَب اَلْأَسَد (ḏanab al-ʔasad, “the lion's tail”), from ذَنَب (ḏanab, “tail”) + أَسَد (ʔasad, “lion”).

der

ذَنَب اَلْأَسَد

Beta Leonis, the second-brightest star in the constellation of Leo.


Denebola

From Arabic ذَنَب اَلْأَسَد (ḏanab al-ʔasad, “the lion's tail”), from ذَنَب (ḏanab, “tail”) + أَسَد (ʔasad, “lion”).

ذَنَب اَلْأَسَد

Denebola, the second brightest star in the constellation of Leo


Kochab

Borrowed from Arabic كَوْكَب (kawkab, “star”).

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(astronomy) β Ursae Minoris, the second-brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor, formerly a dual North Star with Pherkad from about 1000 BC to about AD 300.


Kochab

Kochab, the second brightest star in the constellation of Ursa Minor


Ras Algethi

Arabic رَأْس اَلْجَاثِي (raʔs al-jāṯī, “the kneeler's head”), from رَأْس (raʔs, “head”) and الجَاثِي (al-jāṯī, “the kneeler, Hercules”).

uder

رَأْس اَلْجَاثِي

Alpha Herculis, the brightest star in the constellation of Hercules


Mirfak

(astronomy) Alpha Persei, a yellow supergiant star in the constellation of Perseus.


Mirfak

Mirfak, the brightest star in the constellation of Perseus


Eltanin

From the Arabic رَأْس اَلتِّنِّين (raʔs at-tinnīn, “the dragon’s head”), from رَأْس (raʔs, “head”) + تِنِّين (tinnīn, “dragon”).

bor

رَأْس اَلتِّنِّين

(astronomy) An orange giant star, the brightest in the constellation of Draco.


Eltanin

Borrowed from Arabic رَأْس اَلتِّنِّين (raʔs at-tinnīn, “the dragon’s head”), from رَأْس (raʔs, “head”) + تِنِّين (tinnīn, “dragon”).

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رَأْس اَلتِّنِّين

Eltanin, the brightest star in the constellation of Draco


Enif

From Arabic أَنْف (ʔanf, “nose”) (i.e. of Pegasus).

[Enif, Enf, and Enir, all titles for this, are from Al Anf, the Nose, by which the Arabians designated it.]

1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and Their Meanings, New York: G. E. Stechert, page 327:

(astronomy) A type-LC irregular variable supergiant, visible as a second-magnitude orange star, or telescopically as an apparent triple star, marking the nose of the horse in the northern constellation of Pegasus.


Enif

Unadapted borrowing from Arabic أَنْف (ʔanf, “nose”).

ubor

Enif, the brightest star in the constellation of Pegasus


Phecda

Gamma Ursae Majoris, a star in the constellation of Ursa Major.


Phecda

Phecda, a star in the constellation of Ursa Major


Alpheratz

From Arabic سُرَّةُ الْفَرَس (surratu l-faras, “the horse's navel”) (referring to Pegasus), from سُرَّة (surra, “navel”) + فَرَس (faras, “horse, steed”).

der

سُرَّةُ الْفَرَس

In the head of Andromeda, there is a star of the second magnitude called Alpheratz and is one of those which form the square of Pegasus[…]. Alpheratz is on an imaginary line drawn from the north-easternmost star in the square of the Great Bear, through the north polar star, and distant from the latter about 61 degrees.

1821, Thomas Kerigan, The Young Navigator's Guide to the Sidereal and Planetary Parts of Nautical Astronomy: Being the Theory and Practice of Finding the Latitude, the Longitude, and the Variation of the Compass by the Fixed Stars and Planets. […], London: Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, page 67:

[Alpheratz, Alpherat, and Sirrah are from the Arabians' Al Surrat al Faras, the Horse's Navel, as this star formerly was associated with Pegasus, whence it was transferred to the Woman's hair; and some one has strangely called it Umbilicus Andromedae. But in all late Arabian astronomy taken from Ptolemy it was described as Al Rās al Mar'ah al Musalsalah, the Head of the Woman in Chains.]

1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and Their Meanings, New York: G. E. Stechert, page 35:

spectroscopic binary
spectroscopic binary

(astronomy) A spectroscopic binary, visible as a second-magnitude blue-white star marking the head of the chained woman in the northern constellation of Andromeda (formerly seen as part of Pegasus), one of four stars in the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.


Alpheratz

From Arabic سُرَّة اَلْفَرَس (surra(t) al-faras, “the horse's navel”) (referring to Pegasus), from سُرَّة (surra, “navel”) + فَرَس (faras, “horse, steed”).

سُرَّة اَلْفَرَس

(astronomy) Alpheratz (the brightest star in the constellation of Andromeda)


Dubhe

From the Arabic phrase اَلْظَهْرُ اَلْدُبِّ اَلْأَكْبَر (al-ẓahru l-dubbi l-ʔakbar, “the back of the great bear [i.e. Ursa Major]”), from ظَهْر (ẓahr, “back”) + دُبّ (dubb, “bear”) + أَكْبَر (ʔakbar, “great”).

(astronomy) A multiple star in the constellation of Ursa Major and part of the Plough; Alpha (α) Ursae Majoris.


Dubhe

Dubhe, the second brightest star in the constellation of Ursa Major


Fomalhaut

From Arabic فَمُ الْحُوت (famu l-ḥūt, literally “the fish mouth”).

bor

فَمُ الْحُوت

(astronomy) The brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus and one of the brightest stars in the night sky; Alpha (α) Piscis Austrini.


Fomalhaut

Borrowed from Arabic فَمُ الْحُوت (famu l-ḥūt, literally “the fish mouth”).

bor+

فَمُ الْحُوت


Fomalhaut

Ultimately from Arabic فَمُ الْحُوت (famu l-ḥūt, literally “the fish mouth”).

der

فَمُ الْحُوت


Fomalhaut

bor+

فَمُ الْحُوت


Algol

From Arabic الْغُول (al-ḡūl, “the ghoul”).

(astronomy) An eclipsing binary star in the constellation of Perseus; Beta (β) Persei. It represents the eye of Medusa, whose head is being held by Perseus.


Algol

de-proper noun

Algol m (proper noun, strong, genitive Algols)

(astronomy) Algol (binary star in the constellation of Perseus)


Algol

From Arabic اَلْغُول (al-ḡūl, “the ghoul”).


Algol

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْغُول (al-ḡūl, “the ghoul”).


Markab

From Arabic المَرْكَبُ الفَرَس (al-markabu l-faras, “the saddle of the horse”), from مَرْكَب (markab, “boat, saddle”).

der

المَرْكَبُ الفَرَس

[Markab (the south-westernmost star in the square) is one of the stars from which the moon's distance is calculated in the Nautical Almanac, for the purpose of finding the longitude by lunar observations.]

[Markab—Flamsteed's Marchab—is the Arabs' word for a Saddle, Ship, or Vehicle,—anything ridden upon,—that was early applied to this star; but they also designated it as Matn al Faras, the Horse's Withers or Shoulder, and Bayer cited Yed Alpheras, the Horse's Hand, or, more properly, Forearm,—the Arabian Yad.]

1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and Their Meanings, New York: G. E. Stechert, page 324:

(astronomy) A subgiant, visible as a second-magnitude bluish star in the northern constellation of Pegasus, one of four stars in the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus, one of the lunar stars observed in navigation.

(astronomy) A star in the constellation Puppis; Kappa (κ) Puppis.

(astronomy) A star in the constellation Vela; Kappa (κ) Velorum.


Markab

From Arabic مَرْكَب (markab, “boat, saddle etc.”).

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Markab, a star in the constellation of Pegasus


Canopus

(astronomy) A white bright giant, visually the second brightest star in the night sky, a part of the southern constellation of Carina.


Canopus

la-proper noun

Canōpus m sg (genitive Canōpī); second declension

Canōpus (canonical masculine singular)
Canōpī (genitive)
Canōpus (nominative singular)
Canōpī (genitive singular)
Canōpō (dative singular)
Canōpum (accusative singular)
Canōpō (ablative singular)
Canōpe (singular vocative)
Canōpī (locative singular)

→ English: Canopus (learned)

From Ancient Greek Κάνωπος (Kánōpos, “Canopus”), Κάνωβος (Kánōbos, “Canobus”). Possibly Arabic جَنُوب (janūb, “south”) is cognate; compare the southeastern wall of the Kaaba pointing to the star and bearing the name جَنُوب (janūb).


Mizar

(astronomy) A binary star in the constellation Ursa Major; Zeta (ζ) Ursae Majoris.


Mizar

Mizar, a binary star in the constellation of Ursa Major


فم الحوت

ar-proper noun

فَم الْحُوت • (fam al-ḥūt) m

فَم الْحُوت (canonical)
fam al-ḥūt (romanization)
فَم الْحُوت (definite informal singular triptote)
فَمُ الْحُوتِ (definite nominative singular triptote)
فَمَ الْحُوتِ (accusative definite singular triptote)
فَمِ الْحُوتِ (definite genitive singular triptote)

فَم (fam, “mouth”) + حُوت (ḥūt, “fish”), literally "the fish's mouth".


सूर्य

Helu Prakrit:

Dhivehi: އިރު (iru)

Sinhalese: ඉර (ira)

Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀲𑀼𑀚𑁆𑀚 (sujja)

Sindhi: सिॼु(sijju)

Paisaci Prakrit:

Punjabi: ਸਿਝ (sijha) (archaic)

Pali: surya

→ Assamese: সূৰুয (xuruz)

→ Bengali: সূর্য (śurjo)

→ Gujarati: સૂરજ (sūraj)

→ Hindi: सूर्य (sūrya), सूरज (sūraj)

→ Khmer: សុរិយ (soreyaʼ)

→ Kannada: ಸೂರ್ಯ (sūrya)

→ Konkani: सूर्य (sūrya)

→ Malayalam: സൂര്യന് (sūryaṉ)

→ Malay: suria
Indonesian: surya

→ Marathi: सूर्य (sūrya)

desctree

→ Old Javanese: sūrya
Javanese: ꦱꦸꦂꦪ (surya), ꦱꦺꦴꦂꦪ (sorya)
→ Balinese: ᬲᬹᬃᬬ (surya)

→ Odia: ସୂର୍ଯ୍ୟ (surjya)

→ Nepali: सूर्य (sūrya)

→ Newar: सूर्द्य (sūrdya)

→ Punjabi: ਸੂਰਜ (sūraj) / سورج (sūraj)

→ Marwari: सूरज (sūraj)

→ Sindhi: سوُرَجُ (sūraju)

→ Sinhalese: සූර්යයා (sūryayā)

→ Tamil: சூரியன் (cūriyaṉ)

→ Telugu: సూర్యుడు (sūryuḍu)

desc

→ Thai: สุริยา

→ Thai: สุริยา

→ Burmese: သူရိယ (suri.ya.)

→ Urdu: سورج (sūraj)

A -य (-ya) extension of the base सूर् (sū́r), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *súHar (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios), Latin sōl, Persian خور (xur), English sun. Also related to स्वर् (svàr, “sun”) and सूर (sū́ra, “sun”).

त॒रणि॑र्वि॒श्वद॑र्शतो ज्योति॒ष्कृद॑सि सूर्य।
विश्व॒मा भा॑सि रोच॒नम्॥
taráṇirviśvádarśato jyotiṣkṛ́dasi sūrya.
víśvamā́ bhāsi rocanám.

You, Sūrya, outstrip all in speed; you are visible to all; you are the source of light; you shine throughout the entire firmament

(Vedic religion, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism) Surya, the Vedic solar deity


सूर्य

sū́rya (romanization)
सूर्यः (nominative singular)
सूर्यौ (dual nominative)
सूर्या1 (dual nominative)
सूर्याः (nominative plural)
सूर्यासः1 (nominative plural)
सूर्य (singular vocative)
सूर्यौ (dual vocative)
सूर्या1 (dual vocative)
सूर्याः (plural vocative)
सूर्यासः1 (plural vocative)
सूर्यम् (accusative singular)
सूर्यौ (accusative dual)
सूर्या1 (accusative dual)
सूर्यान् (accusative plural)
सूर्येण (instrumental singular)
सूर्याभ्याम् (dual instrumental)
सूर्यैः (instrumental plural)
सूर्येभिः1 (instrumental plural)
सूर्याय (dative singular)
सूर्याभ्याम् (dative dual)
सूर्येभ्यः (dative plural)
सूर्यात् (ablative singular)
सूर्याभ्याम् (ablative dual)
सूर्येभ्यः (ablative plural)
सूर्यस्य (genitive singular)
सूर्ययोः (dual genitive)
सूर्याणाम् (genitive plural)
सूर्ये (locative singular)
सूर्ययोः (dual locative)
सूर्येषु (locative plural)
सूर्या (nominative singular)
सूर्ये (dual nominative)
सूर्याः (nominative plural)
सूर्ये (singular vocative)
सूर्ये (dual vocative)
सूर्याः (plural vocative)
सूर्याम् (accusative singular)
सूर्ये (accusative dual)
सूर्याः (accusative plural)
सूर्यया (instrumental singular)
सूर्या1 (instrumental singular)
सूर्याभ्याम् (dual instrumental)
सूर्याभिः (instrumental plural)
सूर्यायै (dative singular)
सूर्याभ्याम् (dative dual)
सूर्याभ्यः (dative plural)
सूर्यायाः (ablative singular)
सूर्यायै2 (ablative singular)
सूर्याभ्याम् (ablative dual)
सूर्याभ्यः (ablative plural)
सूर्यायाः (genitive singular)
सूर्यायै2 (genitive singular)
सूर्ययोः (dual genitive)
सूर्याणाम् (genitive plural)
सूर्यायाम् (locative singular)
सूर्ययोः (dual locative)
सूर्यासु (locative plural)
सूर्यम् (nominative singular)
सूर्ये (dual nominative)
सूर्याणि (nominative plural)
सूर्या1 (nominative plural)
सूर्य (singular vocative)
सूर्ये (dual vocative)
सूर्याणि (plural vocative)
सूर्या1 (plural vocative)
सूर्यम् (accusative singular)
सूर्ये (accusative dual)
सूर्याणि (accusative plural)
सूर्या1 (accusative plural)
सूर्येण (instrumental singular)
सूर्याभ्याम् (dual instrumental)
सूर्यैः (instrumental plural)
सूर्येभिः1 (instrumental plural)
सूर्याय (dative singular)
सूर्याभ्याम् (dative dual)
सूर्येभ्यः (dative plural)
सूर्यात् (ablative singular)
सूर्याभ्याम् (ablative dual)
सूर्येभ्यः (ablative plural)
सूर्यस्य (genitive singular)
सूर्ययोः (dual genitive)
सूर्याणाम् (genitive plural)
सूर्ये (locative singular)
सूर्ययोः (dual locative)
सूर्येषु (locative plural)


Gemma

→ Cebuano: Gemma

→ Tagalog: Gemma

Ultimately from Latin gemma (“jewel”). The given name is mostly borrowed via Italian Gemma; the spelling Jemma in particular is associated with James. Doublet of gemma and gem.

(astronomy) A bright binary star in the constellation Corona Borealis; Alpha (α) Coronae Borealis.


Rigel

A corruption of Arabic رِجْل (rijl, “foot, leg”), in the Arabic name رِجْل الْجَبَّار (rijl al-jabbār, literally “foot of the great one”).

(astronomy) A blue supergiant star in the constellation Orion; Beta (β) Orionis. The seventh brightest star in the night sky.


Rigel

From English Rigel, a corruption of Arabic رِجْل (rijl, “foot, leg”), in the Arabic name اَلرِّجْل اَلْجَبَّار (ar-rijl al-jabbār, “the foot of the great one”).

(astronomy) Rigel; a blue supergiant star in the constellation Orion


Rigel

From a corruption of Arabic رِجْل (rijl, “foot, leg”), in the Arabic name اَلرِّجْل اَلْجَبَّار (ar-rijl al-jabbār, “the foot of the great one”).


Rigel

Rigel (nominative singular)
Rigela (genitive singular)
Rigelowi (dative singular)
Rigela (accusative singular)
Rigelem (instrumental singular)
Rigelu (locative singular)
Rigelu (singular vocative)

Rigel (β Orionis, a blue supergiant star)


Alcyone

Latin Alcyonē, from Ancient Greek Ἀλκυόνη (Alkuónē), from Ancient Greek ἀλκυών (alkuṓn), which is considered to be of Pre-Greek origin.

(astronomy) One of the stars of the Pleiades star cluster, named after the mythical character.


Alcyone

(astronomy) Alcyone (one of the Pleiades)


Procyon

/ˈpɹəʊsiˌɒn/

From Latin Procyōn, from Ancient Greek Προκύων (Prokúōn), from πρό (pró, “before”) + κύων (kúōn, “dog”), in reference to it preceding the "Dog Star" Sirius.

affix

(astronomy) A star in the constellation Canis Minor; Alpha (α) Canis Minoris. The eighth brightest star in the night sky.


GRB

(astronomy) Initialism of gamma-ray burst.


r-process

(nuclear physics, astrophysics) The relatively rapid nucleosynthesis process, in supernovae, in which a large neutron flux allows rapid neutron capture and synthesis of elements up to the transuranic elements.


helium variable

en-noun

helium variable (plural helium variables)

(astronomy) A star in which the strength of the helium absorption lines vary periodically; at times appearing to be a helium star.


helium star

(astronomy) A star which has lost most or all of its hydrogen, leaving just a core of helium.


red supergiant

(astronomy) A very large, red star, such as Betelgeuse and Antares.


carbon star

(astronomy) any of a class of red giant stars having a high proportion of carbon because of helium burning


brown dwarf

brown dwarf (plural brown dwarfs or brown dwarves)

brown dwarfs (plural)
brown dwarves (plural)

(astronomy) A starlike object that contracts to about the volume of Jupiter after its formation phase; its mass may range from several times that of Jupiter, such that it fuses deuterium, up to just below the threshold of sustained hydrogen fusion.


Sirius

From Latin Sīrius, from Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seírios), usually taken from σείριος (seírios, “scorching; scorcher”).

(astronomy) A telescopic binary star, visually the brightest star in the night sky, a part of the northern constellation of Canis Major (the Greater Dog), one of three stars in the Winter Triangle asterism. Long understood as a single extremely luminous white star, it was associated in ancient Egypt with the Nile flood and in Greek and Roman culture with the "dog days" of summer.

(astronomy, specifically) The brightest star of the aforementioned star system; the white main-sequence star Sirius A.


Sirius

de-proper noun

Sirius m (proper noun, strong, genitive Sirius)


Sirius

la-proper noun

Sīrius m sg (genitive Sīriī or Sīrī); second declension

Sīrius (canonical masculine singular)
Sīriī (genitive)
Sīrī (genitive)
Sīrius (nominative singular)
Sīriī (genitive singular)
Sīrī (genitive singular)
Sīriō (dative singular)
Sīrium (accusative singular)
Sīriō (ablative singular)
Sīrī (singular vocative)

→ Afrikaans: Sirius

desc

الشِّعْرَى الْيَمَانِيَّة

→⇒ Arabic: اَلشِّعْرَى (aš-šiʕrā), الشِّعْرَى الْيَمَانِيَّة (aš-šiʕrā l-yamāniyya)

→ Armenian: Սիրիուս (Sirius)

→ Catalan: Sírius

→ Czech: Sirius

→ Dutch: Sirius

→ Esperanto: Siriuso

→ Estonian: Siirius

→ Faroese: Sirius

→ Finnish: Sirius

→ French: Sirius

→ Georgian: სირიუსი (siriusi)

→ German: Sirius

→ Indonesian: Sirius

→ Italian: Sirio

→ Japanese: シリウス (Shiriusu)

→ Korean: 시리우스 (siriuseu)

→ Latvian: Sīriuss

→ Lithuanian: Sirijus

→ Malay: Sirius

→ Polish: Syriusz

→ Portuguese: Sírio

→ Romanian: Sirius

→ Russian: Си́риус (Sírius)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: Сиријус

Roman: Sirius

→ Spanish: Sirio

→ Swedish: Sirius

→ Thai: ซิริอุส

⇒ ดาวซิริอุส

→ Thai: ซิริอุส, ⇒ ดาวซิริอุส

→ Turkish: Sirius

→ Ukrainian: Сіріус (Sirius)

→ Vietnamese: Sirius

→ Welsh: Siriws

From Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seírios, “Seirios”), possibly from σείριος (seírios, “scorching, destructive”).


Πολικός Αστέρας

head

Πολικός Αστέρας • (Polikós Astéras) m (plural Polikós Astéras)

Polikós Astéras (romanization)
Polikós Astéras (plural)

From Πολικός (Polikós, “polar, arctic”) + Αστέρας (Astéras, “star”).


Dog Star

From the fact that the star lies in the constellation of Canis Major (the "larger dog").

(astronomy) A bluish-white star in the constellation Canis Major; Alpha (α) Canis Majoris A. A vertex of the Winter Triangle and the brightest star in the night sky. It is actually a binary star with a white dwarf companion star.


blue straggler

This boosted the mass of the companion, turning it into a blue straggler, while reducing the companion to a sub-dwarf B star.

2015, David Stevenson, The Complex Lives of Star Clusters, Springer, →ISBN, page 168:

(astronomy) An unusually hot and blue star in globular clusters.


The shield of the sun god Apollo, with a boss in the center. Medieval replacement of ⟨🜚⟩, the sun with a single ray, which in ancient times had replaced a sun orb surrounded by multiple rays.
Compare the Egyptian hieroglyph ⟨⟩ and the Chinese character ⟨⟩, both of which mean 'sun' and 'day'.

A subscript to variables in mathematical equations, such as π_☉ (solar parallax).

Suppose the apparent angular distance of the sun & moon's nearest limbs [...] to be 110°.2′.30″ the app. alt of ☉'s lower limb measuring 20°.40′ and that of ☽'s lower limb 35°.24′

1803, Robert Patterson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, volume 40 (in English), Princeton University Press, published 2013, page 71:

For masses under #x5C;textstyle#x5C;frac#x7B;1#x7D;#x7B;3#x7D;☉ only one equilibrium solution exists

1939, Oppenheimer & Volkoff, “On Massive Neutron Cores”, in Physical Review, volume 55:


Pulsar

de-noun

Pulsar m (strong, genitive Pulsars, plural Pulsare)

Pulsars (genitive)
Pulsare (plural)
Pulsar (nominative singular)
Pulsare (definite nominative plural)
Pulsars (genitive singular)
Pulsare (definite genitive plural)
Pulsar (dative singular)
Pulsaren (dative definite plural)
Pulsar (accusative singular)
Pulsare (accusative definite plural)

Borrowed from English pulsar, a blend of pulsating and star.


WR

(astronomy) Initialism of Wolf-Rayet star.


estrellas

Inherited from Spanish estrellas, estrella.


suban

head

suban (definite accusative subani, plural subanlar)

subani (accusative definite)
subanlar (plural)
suban (nominative singular)
subanler (nominative plural)
subani (accusative definite singular)
subanleri (accusative definite plural)
subane (dative singular)
subanlere (dative plural)
subande (locative singular)
subanlerde (locative plural)
subanden (ablative singular)
subanlerden (ablative plural)
subanin (genitive singular)
subanlerin (genitive plural)
subanim (first-person nominative singular)
subanlerim (first-person nominative singular)
subanin (nominative second-person singular)
subanlerin (nominative second-person singular)
subani (nominative singular third-person)
subanleri (nominative singular third-person)
subanimiz (first-person nominative plural)
subanlerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
subaniniz (nominative plural second-person)
subanleriniz (nominative plural second-person)
subanleri (nominative plural third-person)
subanimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
subanlerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
subanini (accusative definite second-person singular)
subanlerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
subanini (accusative definite singular third-person)
subanlerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
subanimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
subanlerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
subaninizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
subanlerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
subanlerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
subanime (dative first-person singular)
subanlerime (dative first-person singular)
subanine (dative second-person singular)
subanlerine (dative second-person singular)
subanine (dative singular third-person)
subanlerine (dative singular third-person)
subanimize (dative first-person plural)
subanlerimize (dative first-person plural)
subaninize (dative plural second-person)
subanlerinize (dative plural second-person)
subanlerine (dative plural third-person)
subanimde (first-person locative singular)
subanlerimde (first-person locative singular)
subaninde (locative second-person singular)
subanlerinde (locative second-person singular)
subaninde (locative singular third-person)
subanlerinde (locative singular third-person)
subanimizde (first-person locative plural)
subanlerimizde (first-person locative plural)
subaninizde (locative plural second-person)
subanlerinizde (locative plural second-person)
subanlerinde (locative plural third-person)
subanimden (ablative first-person singular)
subanlerimden (ablative first-person singular)
subaninden (ablative second-person singular)
subanlerinden (ablative second-person singular)
subaninden (ablative singular third-person)
subanlerinden (ablative singular third-person)
subanimizden (ablative first-person plural)
subanlerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
subaninizden (ablative plural second-person)
subanlerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
subanlerinden (ablative plural third-person)
subanimin (first-person genitive singular)
subanlerimin (first-person genitive singular)
subaninin (genitive second-person singular)
subanlerinin (genitive second-person singular)
subaninin (genitive singular third-person)
subanlerinin (genitive singular third-person)
subanimizin (first-person genitive plural)
subanlerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
subaninizin (genitive plural second-person)
subanlerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
subanlerinin (genitive plural third-person)

From Ottoman Turkish ثعبان (suʿban), from Arabic ثُعْبَان (ṯuʕbān, “snake”).


超新星

ja-noun

超(ちょう)新(しん)星(せい) • (chōshinsei) ^(←てうしんせい (teusinsei)?)

超新星 (canonical)
chōshinsei (romanization)
teusinsei (romanization)
てうしんせい (hiragana historical)

[t͡ɕo̞ːɕĩɰ̃se̞ː]

From 超 (chō-, “super-”) + 新星 (shinsei, “nova”).


variable star

(astronomy) Any star whose brightness varies.


プロキオン

[pɯ̟ɾo̞kʲiõ̞ɴ]


白色矮星

白色矮星 (canonical)
hakushokuwaisei (romanization)


褐色矮星

ja-noun

褐(かっ)色(しょく)矮(わい)星(せい) • (kasshokuwaisei)

褐色矮星 (canonical)
kasshokuwaisei (romanization)


赤色矮星

赤色矮星 (canonical)
sekishokuwaisei (romanization)


北極星

北極星 (canonical)
Hokkyokusei (romanization)

(astronomy) the North Star, Pole Star, Polaris


Wolf-Rayet star

en-noun

Wolf-Rayet star (plural Wolf-Rayet stars)

For Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet, French astronomers

(astronomy) Any of a class of young, very hot stars that have a very strong stellar wind and consequent broad, strong emission lines.


中性子星

中性子星 (canonical)
chūseishisei (romanization)

[t͡ɕɨːse̞ːɕi̥se̞ː]

中性子 (chūseishi, “neutron”) + 星 (-sei, “star”)


黒色矮星

ja-noun

黒(こく)色(しょく)矮(わい)星(せい) • (kokushoku waisei)

黒色矮星 (canonical)
kokushoku waisei (romanization)

From 黒(こく)色(しょく) (kokushoku, “black”) 矮(わい)星(せい) (waisei, “dwarf”).


bituin

tl-verb

bituin (complete binito, progressive binibito, contemplative bibituin, Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜆᜓᜁᜈ᜔)

binito (completive)
binibito (progressive)
bibituin (contemplative)
ᜊᜒᜆᜓᜁᜈ᜔ (Baybayin)

[bɪˈt̪uː.ʔɪn̪]

Bituin mo yari.


اختر

Turkish: ahter

Borrowed from Persian اختر (axtar, “star”).

bor+

(astronomy) star, a luminous celestial body made up of plasma


Arturo

Derived from Proto-Celtic *artos (“bear”).

der+

a male given name, equivalent to English Arthur


Arturo

(astronomy) Arcturus (a bright yellow-orange star in the constellation Boötes)


ستاره

Turkish: sitare

Borrowed from Classical Persian ستاره (sitâra, “star; fate”).


Σείριος

grc-proper noun

Σείρῐος • (Seírios) m (genitive Σειρίου); second declension

Σείρῐος (canonical)
Seírios (romanization)
Σειρίου (genitive)
ὁ Σείριος (nominative singular)
τοῦ Σειρίου (genitive singular)
τῷ Σειρίῳ (dative singular)
τὸν Σείριον (accusative singular)
Σείριε (singular vocative)

desctree

→ Latin: Sīrius
→ Afrikaans: Sirius
→⇒ Arabic: اَلشِّعْرَى (aš-šiʕrā), الشِّعْرَى الْيَمَانِيَّة (aš-šiʕrā l-yamāniyya)
→ Armenian: Սիրիուս (Sirius)
→ Catalan: Sírius
→ Czech: Sirius
→ Dutch: Sirius
→ Esperanto: Siriuso
→ Estonian: Siirius
→ Faroese: Sirius
→ Finnish: Sirius
→ French: Sirius
→ Georgian: სირიუსი (siriusi)
→ German: Sirius
→ Indonesian: Sirius
→ Italian: Sirio
→ Japanese: シリウス (Shiriusu)
→ Korean: 시리우스 (siriuseu)
→ Latvian: Sīriuss
→ Lithuanian: Sirijus
→ Malay: Sirius
→ Polish: Syriusz
→ Portuguese: Sírio
→ Romanian: Sirius
→ Russian: Си́риус (Sírius)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Сиријус
Roman: Sirius
→ Spanish: Sirio
→ Swedish: Sirius
→ Thai: ซิริอุส, ⇒ ดาวซิริอุส
→ Turkish: Sirius
→ Ukrainian: Сіріус (Sirius)
→ Vietnamese: Sirius
→ Welsh: Siriws

Assuming an original meaning "sparkling, flickering", the word has been connected with σείω (seíō, “to shake”), which is compared to a verb "to be excited, sparkle, gleam" in Sanskrit त्विष् (tviṣ, “brilliance, glitter”), त्वेष (tveṣa, “vehement; brilliant”) and especially Avestan 𐬚𐬡𐬌𐬯𐬭𐬀 (θβisra, “glitter”). The basis for the Greek form would then be *tweys-ro- or *twis-ro-. Furnée compares τίριος (tírios, “Cretan word for summer”); if correct the word could be Pre-Greek.


Alcíone

Learned borrowing from Latin Alcyonē, from Ancient Greek Ἀλκυόνη (Alkuónē).

(Greek mythology) Alcyone (daughter of Atlas)


大火

/tä⁵¹ xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/taːi̯²² fɔː³⁵/

/tä⁵¹ xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/taːi̯²² fɔː³⁵/


subdwarf

(astronomy) A star that is dimmer than a main-sequence star of same temperature; located below the main sequence on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.


hypergiant

(astronomy) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.


כוכב

he-noun

כּוֹכָב • (kokháv) m (plural indefinite כּוֹכָבִים, singular construct כּוֹכַב־, plural construct כּוֹכְבֵי־)

כּוֹכָב (canonical)
kokháv (romanization)
כּוֹכָבִים (indefinite plural)
כּוֹכַב־ (construct singular)
כּוֹכְבֵי־ (construct plural)
כּוֹכָב (indefinite singular)
כּוֹכָבִי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
כּוֹכָבֵנוּ (feminine first-person masculine plural possessed-form)
הַכּוֹכָב (definite singular)
כּוֹכָבְךָ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
כּוֹכָבֵךְ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
כּוֹכַבְכֶם (masculine plural possessed-form second-person)
כּוֹכַבְכֶן (feminine plural possessed-form second-person)
כּוֹכַב־ (construct singular)
כּוֹכָבוֹ (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
כּוֹכָבָהּ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
כּוֹכָבָם (masculine plural possessed-form third-person)
כּוֹכָבָן (feminine plural possessed-form third-person)
כּוֹכָבִים (indefinite plural)
כוכביי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
כּוֹכָבַי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
כּוֹכָבֵינוּ (feminine first-person masculine plural possessed-form)
הַכּוֹכָבִים (definite plural)
כּוֹכָבֶיךָ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
כוכבייך (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
כּוֹכָבַיִךְ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
כּוֹכְבֵיכֶם (masculine plural possessed-form second-person)
כּוֹכְבֵיכֶן (feminine plural possessed-form second-person)
כּוֹכְבֵי־ (construct plural)
כּוֹכָבָיו (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
כּוֹכָבֶיהָ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
כּוֹכְבֵיהֶם (masculine plural possessed-form third-person)
כּוֹכְבֵיהֶן (feminine plural possessed-form third-person)

Root
 כ־כ־ב (k-k-b)
From Proto-Semitic *kabkab-.


Bellatrix

(astronomy) A blue eruptive variable star, the third brightest star in the constellation Orion; Gamma (γ) Orionis.


Bellatrix

Bellatrix, the third brightest star in the constellation of Orion


Alnilam

From Arabic اَلنِّظَام (an-niẓām), related to the word نَظْم (naẓm, “string of pearls”).

(astronomy) A large blue star in the constellation of Orion; Epsilon (ε) Orionis, one of the three stars that form Orion's Belt.


Alnilam

Alnilam, a star in the constellation of Orion


Saiph

From Arabic سَيْف (sayf), originally سَيْف اَلْجَبَّار (sayf al-jabbār, “sword of the giant”).

(astronomy) A blue star in the constellation Orion; Kappa (κ) Orionis.


Saiph

Saiph, the sixth brightest star in the constellation of Orion


X-ray binary

(astronomy) A binary star system in which one star of the pair is an optically invisible X-ray source.


degenerate matter

Pauli exclusion principle
Pauli exclusion principle

(physics) matter which has sufficiently high density that the dominant contribution to its pressure arises from the Pauli exclusion principle.


QGP

Physicists are attempting to make QGP by smashing large atomic nuclei into one another at such high energies that the protons and neutrons squeeze together.

2004, Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 126:

quark-gluon plasma
quark-gluon plasma#English

(physics) Initialism of quark-gluon plasma.


Μερόπη

Merópi (romanization)
Μερόπες (plural)
Μερόπη (nominative singular)
Μερόπες (nominative plural)
Μερόπης (genitive singular)
Μερόπη (accusative singular)
Μερόπες (accusative plural)
Μερόπη (singular vocative)
Μερόπες (plural vocative)

(astronomy) The least bright star in the cluster in Taurus, known as the Pleiades.


valkoinen kääpiö

valkoinen kääpiö (nominative singular)
valkoiset kääpiöt (nominative plural)
valkoinen kääpiö (accusative nominative singular)
valkoiset kääpiöt (accusative nominative plural)
valkoisen kääpiön (accusative genitive singular)
valkoiset kääpiöt (accusative genitive plural)
valkoisen kääpiön (genitive singular)
valkoisten kääpiöiden (genitive plural)
valkoisten kääpiöitten (genitive plural)
valkoisien kääpiöiden (genitive plural)
valkoisien kääpiöitten (genitive plural rare)
valkoista kääpiötä (partitive singular)
valkoisia kääpiöitä (partitive plural)
valkoisessa kääpiössä (inessive singular)
valkoisissa kääpiöissä (inessive plural)
valkoisesta kääpiöstä (elative singular)
valkoisista kääpiöistä (elative plural)
valkoiseen kääpiöön (illative singular)
valkoisiin kääpiöihin (illative plural)
valkoisella kääpiöllä (adessive singular)
valkoisilla kääpiöillä (adessive plural)
valkoiselta kääpiöltä (ablative singular)
valkoisilta kääpiöiltä (ablative plural)
valkoiselle kääpiölle (allative singular)
valkoisille kääpiöille (allative plural)
valkoisena kääpiönä (essive singular)
valkoisina kääpiöinä (essive plural)
valkoiseksi kääpiöksi (singular translative)
valkoisiksi kääpiöiksi (plural translative)
valkoisetta kääpiöttä (abessive singular)
valkoisitta kääpiöittä (abessive plural)
valkoisin kääpiöin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
valkoinen kääpiöni (nominative singular)
valkoiset kääpiöni (nominative plural)
valkoinen kääpiöni (accusative nominative singular)
valkoiset kääpiöni (accusative nominative plural)
valkoisen kääpiöni (accusative genitive singular)
valkoiset kääpiöni (accusative genitive plural)
valkoisen kääpiöni (genitive singular)
valkoisten kääpiöideni (genitive plural)
valkoisten kääpiöitteni (genitive plural)
valkoisien kääpiöideni (genitive plural)
valkoisien kääpiöitteni (genitive plural)
valkoista kääpiötäni (partitive singular)
valkoisia kääpiöitäni (partitive plural)
valkoisessa kääpiössäni (inessive singular)
valkoisissa kääpiöissäni (inessive plural)
valkoisesta kääpiöstäni (elative singular)
valkoisista kääpiöistäni (elative plural)
valkoiseen kääpiööni (illative singular)
valkoisiin kääpiöihini (illative plural)
valkoisella kääpiölläni (adessive singular)
valkoisilla kääpiöilläni (adessive plural)
valkoiselta kääpiöltäni (ablative singular)
valkoisilta kääpiöiltäni (ablative plural)
valkoiselle kääpiölleni (allative singular)
valkoisille kääpiöilleni (allative plural)
valkoisena kääpiönäni (essive singular)
valkoisina kääpiöinäni (essive plural)
valkoiseksi kääpiökseni (singular translative)
valkoisiksi kääpiöikseni (plural translative)
valkoisetta kääpiöttäni (abessive singular)
valkoisitta kääpiöittäni (abessive plural)
valkoisine kääpiöineni (comitative plural)
valkoinen kääpiösi (nominative singular)
valkoiset kääpiösi (nominative plural)
valkoinen kääpiösi (accusative nominative singular)
valkoiset kääpiösi (accusative nominative plural)
valkoisen kääpiösi (accusative genitive singular)
valkoiset kääpiösi (accusative genitive plural)
valkoisen kääpiösi (genitive singular)
valkoisten kääpiöidesi (genitive plural)
valkoisten kääpiöittesi (genitive plural)
valkoisien kääpiöidesi (genitive plural)
valkoisien kääpiöittesi (genitive plural)
valkoista kääpiötäsi (partitive singular)
valkoisia kääpiöitäsi (partitive plural)
valkoisessa kääpiössäsi (inessive singular)
valkoisissa kääpiöissäsi (inessive plural)
valkoisesta kääpiöstäsi (elative singular)
valkoisista kääpiöistäsi (elative plural)
valkoiseen kääpiöösi (illative singular)
valkoisiin kääpiöihisi (illative plural)
valkoisella kääpiölläsi (adessive singular)
valkoisilla kääpiöilläsi (adessive plural)
valkoiselta kääpiöltäsi (ablative singular)
valkoisilta kääpiöiltäsi (ablative plural)
valkoiselle kääpiöllesi (allative singular)
valkoisille kääpiöillesi (allative plural)
valkoisena kääpiönäsi (essive singular)
valkoisina kääpiöinäsi (essive plural)
valkoiseksi kääpiöksesi (singular translative)
valkoisiksi kääpiöiksesi (plural translative)
valkoisetta kääpiöttäsi (abessive singular)
valkoisitta kääpiöittäsi (abessive plural)
valkoisine kääpiöinesi (comitative plural)
valkoinen kääpiömme (nominative singular)
valkoiset kääpiömme (nominative plural)
valkoinen kääpiömme (accusative nominative singular)
valkoiset kääpiömme (accusative nominative plural)
valkoisen kääpiömme (accusative genitive singular)
valkoiset kääpiömme (accusative genitive plural)
valkoisen kääpiömme (genitive singular)
valkoisten kääpiöidemme (genitive plural)
valkoisten kääpiöittemme (genitive plural)
valkoisien kääpiöidemme (genitive plural)
valkoisien kääpiöittemme (genitive plural)
valkoista kääpiötämme (partitive singular)
valkoisia kääpiöitämme (partitive plural)
valkoisessa kääpiössämme (inessive singular)
valkoisissa kääpiöissämme (inessive plural)
valkoisesta kääpiöstämme (elative singular)
valkoisista kääpiöistämme (elative plural)
valkoiseen kääpiöömme (illative singular)
valkoisiin kääpiöihimme (illative plural)
valkoisella kääpiöllämme (adessive singular)
valkoisilla kääpiöillämme (adessive plural)
valkoiselta kääpiöltämme (ablative singular)
valkoisilta kääpiöiltämme (ablative plural)
valkoiselle kääpiöllemme (allative singular)
valkoisille kääpiöillemme (allative plural)
valkoisena kääpiönämme (essive singular)
valkoisina kääpiöinämme (essive plural)
valkoiseksi kääpiöksemme (singular translative)
valkoisiksi kääpiöiksemme (plural translative)
valkoisetta kääpiöttämme (abessive singular)
valkoisitta kääpiöittämme (abessive plural)
valkoisine kääpiöinemme (comitative plural)
valkoinen kääpiönne (nominative singular)
valkoiset kääpiönne (nominative plural)
valkoinen kääpiönne (accusative nominative singular)
valkoiset kääpiönne (accusative nominative plural)
valkoisen kääpiönne (accusative genitive singular)
valkoiset kääpiönne (accusative genitive plural)
valkoisen kääpiönne (genitive singular)
valkoisten kääpiöidenne (genitive plural)
valkoisten kääpiöittenne (genitive plural)
valkoisien kääpiöidenne (genitive plural)
valkoisien kääpiöittenne (genitive plural)
valkoista kääpiötänne (partitive singular)
valkoisia kääpiöitänne (partitive plural)
valkoisessa kääpiössänne (inessive singular)
valkoisissa kääpiöissänne (inessive plural)
valkoisesta kääpiöstänne (elative singular)
valkoisista kääpiöistänne (elative plural)
valkoiseen kääpiöönne (illative singular)
valkoisiin kääpiöihinne (illative plural)
valkoisella kääpiöllänne (adessive singular)
valkoisilla kääpiöillänne (adessive plural)
valkoiselta kääpiöltänne (ablative singular)
valkoisilta kääpiöiltänne (ablative plural)
valkoiselle kääpiöllenne (allative singular)
valkoisille kääpiöillenne (allative plural)
valkoisena kääpiönänne (essive singular)
valkoisina kääpiöinänne (essive plural)
valkoiseksi kääpiöksenne (singular translative)
valkoisiksi kääpiöiksenne (plural translative)
valkoisetta kääpiöttänne (abessive singular)
valkoisitta kääpiöittänne (abessive plural)
valkoisine kääpiöinenne (comitative plural)
valkoinen kääpiönsä (nominative singular)
valkoiset kääpiönsä (nominative plural)
valkoinen kääpiönsä (accusative nominative singular)
valkoiset kääpiönsä (accusative nominative plural)
valkoisen kääpiönsä (accusative genitive singular)
valkoiset kääpiönsä (accusative genitive plural)
valkoisen kääpiönsä (genitive singular)
valkoisten kääpiöidensä (genitive plural)
valkoisten kääpiöittensä (genitive plural)
valkoisien kääpiöidensä (genitive plural)
valkoisien kääpiöittensä (genitive plural)
valkoista kääpiötään (partitive singular)
valkoista kääpiötänsä (partitive singular)
valkoisia kääpiöitään (partitive plural)
valkoisia kääpiöitänsä (partitive plural)
valkoisessa kääpiössään (inessive singular)
valkoisessa kääpiössänsä (inessive singular)
valkoisissa kääpiöissään (inessive plural)
valkoisissa kääpiöissänsä (inessive plural)
valkoisesta kääpiöstään (elative singular)
valkoisesta kääpiöstänsä (elative singular)
valkoisista kääpiöistään (elative plural)
valkoisista kääpiöistänsä (elative plural)
valkoiseen kääpiöönsä (illative singular)
valkoisiin kääpiöihinsä (illative plural)
valkoisella kääpiöllään (adessive singular)
valkoisella kääpiöllänsä (adessive singular)
valkoisilla kääpiöillään (adessive plural)
valkoisilla kääpiöillänsä (adessive plural)
valkoiselta kääpiöltään (ablative singular)
valkoiselta kääpiöltänsä (ablative singular)
valkoisilta kääpiöiltään (ablative plural)
valkoisilta kääpiöiltänsä (ablative plural)
valkoiselle kääpiölleen (allative singular)
valkoiselle kääpiöllensä (allative singular)
valkoisille kääpiöilleen (allative plural)
valkoisille kääpiöillensä (allative plural)
valkoisena kääpiönään (essive singular)
valkoisena kääpiönänsä (essive singular)
valkoisina kääpiöinään (essive plural)
valkoisina kääpiöinänsä (essive plural)
valkoiseksi kääpiökseen (singular translative)
valkoiseksi kääpiöksensä (singular translative)
valkoisiksi kääpiöikseen (plural translative)
valkoisiksi kääpiöiksensä (plural translative)
valkoisetta kääpiöttään (abessive singular)
valkoisetta kääpiöttänsä (abessive singular)
valkoisitta kääpiöittään (abessive plural)
valkoisitta kääpiöittänsä (abessive plural)
valkoisine kääpiöineen (comitative plural)
valkoisine kääpiöinensä (comitative plural)


參宿四

/ʂən⁵⁵ ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ sz̩⁵¹/

/sɐm⁵⁵ sɐu̯³³ sei̯³³/

/ʂən⁵⁵ ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ sz̩⁵¹/

/sɐm⁵⁵ sɐu̯³³ sei̯³³/


參宿七

/ʂən⁵⁵ ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵/

/sɐm⁵⁵ sɐu̯³³ t͡sʰɐt̚⁵/

/ʂən⁵⁵ ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵/

/sɐm⁵⁵ sɐu̯³³ t͡sʰɐt̚⁵/


gwiazda

gwiazdka (diminutive)
gwiazda (nominative singular)
gwiazdy (nominative plural)
gwiazdy (genitive singular)
gwiazd (genitive plural)
gwieździe (dative singular)
gwiazdom (dative plural)
gwiazdę (accusative singular)
gwiazdy (accusative plural)
gwiazdą (instrumental singular)
gwiazdami (instrumental plural)
gwieździe (locative singular)
gwiazdach (locative plural)
gwiazdo (singular vocative)
gwiazdy (plural vocative)


畢宿五

/pi⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹ u²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/pɐt̚⁵ sɐu̯³³ ŋ̍¹³/

/pi⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹ u²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/pɐt̚⁵ sɐu̯³³ ŋ̍¹³/


ܟܠܒܐ

From Proto-Semitic *kalb-. The sense of "dog day" is a calque of Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn).


étoile filante

fr-noun

étoile filante f (plural étoiles filantes)


visual binary

(astronomy) A binary star whose components can be visually resolved.


eclipsing binary

en-noun

eclipsing binary (plural eclipsing binaries)

(astronomy) Any of a class of extrinsic variable stars where changes in brightness are caused by stars eclipsing each other.


optical double

(astronomy) A star that appears as a double due to an optical illusion; in reality, the stars may be far apart from each other.


Chandrasekhar limit

(astronomy) The maximum theoretical mass of a white dwarf, approximately 1.4 solar masses.

Chandrasekhar limit
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar


Doppelstern

de-noun

Doppelstern m (strong, genitive Doppelsternes or Doppelsterns, plural Doppelsterne)

Doppelsternes (genitive)
Doppelsterns (genitive)
Doppelsterne (plural)
Doppelstern (nominative singular)
Doppelsterne (definite nominative plural)
Doppelsternes (genitive singular)
Doppelsterns (genitive singular)
Doppelsterne (definite genitive plural)
Doppelstern (dative singular)
Doppelsterne (dative singular)
Doppelsternen (dative definite plural)
Doppelstern (accusative singular)
Doppelsterne (accusative definite plural)

From doppel- (“double”) + Stern (“star”).


giant star

(astronomy) A star that has stopped fusing hydrogen in its core and as a result has grown much larger and brighter.


dwarf star

→ Irish: abhacréalta (calque)

From dwarf + star. Compare West Frisian dwerchster (“dwarf star”), Dutch dwergster (“dwarf star”), German Zwergstern (“dwarf star”), Danish dværgstjerne (“dwarf star”), Swedish dvärgstjärna (“dwarf star”), Icelandic dvergstjarna (“dwarf star”).

(astronomy) A star that is located in the main sequence in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, though generally excluding the small minority which fall in the blue band due to their large size and high luminosity; fuses hydrogen into helium in its core.

نَجْم قَزَم

star that is a located in the main sequence


Gl

(astronomy) the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, for initial catalog

(astronomy) by extension, prefix for any catalogued in the Gliese star catalog and expansions


gamma-ray burst

en-noun

gamma-ray burst (plural gamma-ray bursts)

(astronomy) A flash of gamma rays that seem to originate from a random point in the sky; their most likely sources are believed to be supernova explosions of a very massive stars and mergers of neutron stars.


श्रवण

→ Telugu: శ్రవణము (śravaṇamu)

From श्रव्- (śrav-), variant of the root श्रु (śru, “to hear”) + -अन (-ana).

/ɕɾɐ́.ʋɐ.ɳɐ/

/ˈɕɾɐ.ʋɐ.ɳɐ/

acquiring knowledge by hearing, learning, study


Sirio

From Latin Sīrius, from Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seírios).


GJ

(astronomy) GJ the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, for the Gliese-Jahreiss expansion

(astronomy) by extension, prefix for any catalogued in the Gliese star catalog


ülihiid

head

ülihiid (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])


neutrontäht

neutrontäht (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])


Menkalinan

Shortened form of Arabic مَنْكِب ذِي الْعِنَان (mankib ḏī l-ʕinān, “shoulder of the rein-holder”).

uder

مَنْكِب ذِي الْعِنَان

(astronomy) A traditional name of the star Beta Aurigae.


PNS

en-noun

PNS (countable and uncountable, plural PNSs)

proto-neutron star
proto-neutron star#English


gwiazdozbiór

gwiazdozbiór (nominative singular)
gwiazdozbiory (nominative plural)
gwiazdozbioru (genitive singular)
gwiazdozbiorów (genitive plural)
gwiazdozbiorowi (dative singular)
gwiazdozbiorom (dative plural)
gwiazdozbiór (accusative singular)
gwiazdozbiory (accusative plural)
gwiazdozbiorem (instrumental singular)
gwiazdozbiorami (instrumental plural)
gwiazdozbiorze (locative singular)
gwiazdozbiorach (locative plural)
gwiazdozbiorze (singular vocative)
gwiazdozbiory (plural vocative)

From gwiazda (“star”) + -o- + zbiór (“collection”).


collapsar

Blend of collapse + star, patterned after quasar, pulsar. Analyzable as collapse + -ar

(astronomy) The black hole thought to form following the gravitational collapse of a massive star.


konstelacja

konstelacja (nominative singular)
konstelacje (nominative plural)
konstelacji (genitive singular)
konstelacji (genitive plural)
konstelacyj (archaic genitive plural)
konstelacji (dative singular)
konstelacjom (dative plural)
konstelację (accusative singular)
konstelacje (accusative plural)
konstelacją (instrumental singular)
konstelacjami (instrumental plural)
konstelacji (locative singular)
konstelacjach (locative plural)
konstelacjo (singular vocative)
konstelacje (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French constellation, from Middle French constellation, from Late Latin constēllātio.


trinary

From Late Latin trīnārius (“consisting of three”), from Latin trīni (“triple, three each”) + -ārius.


帝星

/ti⁵¹ ɕiŋ⁵⁵/

/tɐi̯³³ sɪŋ⁵⁵/

/ti⁵¹ ɕiŋ⁵⁵/

/tɐi̯³³ sɪŋ⁵⁵/

It is located in the middle of the constellation known as Purple Forbidden enclosure (紫微垣), which resembles an imperial palace. Consequently, many of the stars were named for the person or building that might have been located in a given part of the palace.


Nunki

Nunki, the second brightest star in the constellation of Sagittarius


microquasar

(astronomy, stars) A high-energy binary star system that includes black hole or neutron star and which resembles a quasar.


Polluce

From Latin Pollūx, from Ancient Greek Πολυδεύκης (Poludeúkēs).


RRAT

rotating radio transient
rotating radio transient#English

(astronomy) Initialism of rotating radio transient: a type of pulsar


supernowa

supernowa (nominative singular)
supernowe (nominative plural)
supernowej (genitive singular)
supernowych (genitive plural)
supernowej (dative singular)
supernowym (dative plural)
supernową (accusative singular)
supernowe (accusative plural)
supernową (instrumental singular)
supernowymi (instrumental plural)
supernowej (locative singular)
supernowych (locative plural)
supernowa (singular vocative)
supernowe (plural vocative)

Coordinate term: hipernowa

(astronomy) supernova (powerful and bright explosion of a massive star, which afterwards becomes a neutron star or a black hole, or is destroyed)


A star and crescent, and ancient symbol originally representing either the Sun and Moon or the Moon and Venus.


نجم

Turkish: necm

Borrowed from Arabic نَجْم (najm, “star, celestial body”).

bor+

(astronomy) star, a luminous celestial body made up of plasma

(astronomy) asterism, an unofficial constellation like the Orion's Belt


(typography) The Arabic star, used like an asterisk


fixed star

Originally so named as to distinguish the stars that appear to have a fixed position on the firmament from the “wandering stars”, i.e., the planets.

(astronomy) A star whose movement cannot be seen from Earth.


HVS

en-noun

HVS (countable and uncountable, plural HVSes)

hypervelocity star
hypervelocity star#English

(astronomy) Initialism of hypervelocity star.


LBV

luminous blue variable
w:luminous blue variable

(astronomy) Initialism of luminous blue variable.


AXP

The radio-silent neutron stars include anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs), soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs), and “quiescent” neutron star candidates in SNRs. There is growing evidence that AXPs and SGRs are indeed magnetars (see [109] for a review).

2008, Joachim E. Trümper, Günther Hasinger (editors), The Universe in X-Rays, page 193:

(astronomy) Initialism of anomalous X-ray pulsar.


SGR

(East Africa) Initialism of standard gauge railway.


N Centauri

A double star in the constellation of Centaurus.


tetraneutron

A hypothetical stable cluster of four neutrons.


Cl*

(astronomy) a cluster of stars — a star cluster


Alpha Centauri C

From Alpha Centauri. Astronomers believe that Proxima Centauri is gravitationally bound to the Alpha Centauri system.


Alpha Centauri B

(astronomy) The brightest star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. Alpha Centauri is actually a binary star with Proxima Centauri as a third component. Alpha Centauri B is less bright than Alpha Centauri A and is somewhat less bright than our sun.