Tauri

Borrowed from Arabic اَلثَّوْر (aṯ-ṯawr).


ramli

Borrowed from Arabic رَمْل (raml, “sand”), from soothsaying from figures in the sand.


Sarateni

Borrowed from Arabic اَلسَّرَطَان (as-saraṭān).

اَلسَّرَطَان


Kausi

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْقَوْس (al-qaws).


Jabari

Borrowed from Arabic الجَبَار (al-jabār).


mnajimu

From Arabic مُنَجِّم (munajjim, “astrologer”), with reinterpretation of m(u)- as the suffix m- (perhaps m- + Arabic نَجْم (najm, “star”)).


Asadi

Borrowed from Arabic الْأَسَد (al-ʔasad).


Jauza

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْجَوْزَاء (al-jawzāʔ).

اَلْجَوْزَاء


Mizani

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْمِيزَان (al-mīzān).


Jadi

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْجَدْي (al-jady).


Akarabu

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْعَقْرَب (al-ʕaqrab).


Mashuke

* mashuke, a translation of السنبلة, so named from the sheaves of wheat carried by the woman in depictions of the constellation (Arabs dropped the human figure and retained only the wheat). See also Spica.


Hamali

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْحَمَل (al-ḥamal).


Dalu

Borrowed from Arabic اَلدَّلْو (ad-dalw).


Kaa

From kaa (“crab”), from Proto-Bantu *nkádá.


Dajaja

Borrowed from Arabic الدَّجَاجَة (ad-dajāja).


Nadhifa

Borrowed from Arabic النَّظِيفَة (an-naẓīfa), from اَلنَّظِيفَة الْعَذْرَاء (an-naẓīfa l-ʕaḏrāʔ).


Kasi ya Masakini

Borrowed from Arabic قَصْعَة الْمَسَاكِين (qaṣʕat al-masākīn).

قَصْعَة الْمَسَاكِين


Hutu Junubi

Borrowed from Arabic الْحُوت الْجَنُوبِيّ (al-ḥūt al-janūbiyy).

الْحُوت الْجَنُوبِيّ