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	Arabic~~/ Arabian asterism~~		Al-Zubānā (), The Claw, is an Arabic star name originally referring to a star in [[Libra]], but later also applied to stars in [[Cancer]]. <ref>Ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallah b. Muslim. 1956. ''Kitāb al-anwāʾ (fī mawāsim al-ʿArab)''. Hyderabad: Maṭbaʿat Majlis Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmāniyya.</ref><ref>Kunitzsch, Paul. 1961. ''Untersuchungen zur Sternnomenklatur der Araber.'' Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.</ref><ref>al-Ṣūfī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUmar. 1981. ''Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thamāniya wa al-arbaʿīn.'' Beirut: Dār al-Āfāq al-Jadīda.</ref>
	<ref>Ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallah b. Muslim. 1956. ''Kitāb al-anwāʾ (fī mawāsim al-ʿArab)''. Hyderabad: Maṭbaʿat Majlis Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmāniyya.</ref>
	<ref>Kunitzsch, Paul. 1961. ''Untersuchungen zur Sternnomenklatur der Araber.'' Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.</ref>
	<ref>al-Ṣūfī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUmar. 1981. ''Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thamāniya wa al-arbaʿīn.'' Beirut: Dār al-Āfāq al-Jadīda.</ref>

	==Concordance, Etymology, History==		==Concordance, Etymology, History==
			The term was used for the following stars:

	~~'''''al-TERM''''' in Adams~~ (~~2018~~)~~,<ref>Danielle Adams, ''Rain Stars Set, Lunar Stations Rise'', 2018</ref> pp. xx-xx.~~		* α Cnc (now named [[Acubens]])
			* ι Cnc (now named [[Yuyu]])

	'''''al-~~TERM~~''''' ~~per Khalid AlAjaji~~		'''''al-Zubānā''''' in Adams (2018),<ref>Danielle Adams, ''Rain Stars Set, Lunar Stations Rise'', 2018</ref> pp. xx-xx.

	'''''al-~~TERM~~''''' in Laffitte (2012<ref>Roland Laffitte, ''Le ciel des Arabes'', 2012</ref>, 2025<ref>Roland Laffitte, ''Nommer les étoile: 500 noms hérités des Arabes - Apport de l'uranographie arabe'', Orient des Mots, 2025 ([https://uranos.fr/500-noms-herites-des-arabes/ online])</ref>).		'''''al-Zubānā''''' per Khalid AlAjaji

			'''''al-Zubānā''''' in Laffitte (2012<ref>Roland Laffitte, ''Le ciel des Arabes'', 2012</ref>, 2025<ref name=":0">Roland Laffitte, ''Nommer les étoile: 500 noms hérités des Arabes - Apport de l'uranographie arabe'', Orient des Mots, 2025 ([https://uranos.fr/500-noms-herites-des-arabes/ online])</ref>).

			The Arabic ''al-Zubānā'', interpreted as "the Claw" of the Crab, a name originally used by the Arabs for [[Libra]], where its true meaning is "the Scales" (Laffitte 2025, 222)<ref name=":0" /> <blockquote>De leur côté les Arabes adoptèrent, dans le système des stations lunaires, le nom mésopotamien sous la forme ''al-Zubānā'', probablement par le canal du mandéen, un dialecte araméen oriental d’Iraq, dans lequel une « balance » se dit z''ibānīta''. […] Or, sous l’influence des Grecs qui voyaient dans cette région les ''Pinces du Scorpion'', les philologues arabes voulurent expliquer ''al-Zubānā'' par la racine √ZBN, « pousser », en donnant à ce mot le sens de « pinces », sens qu’ils étendirent à la constellation du ''Cancer'' (voir ''α'' et ''ι Cnc'').</blockquote>ENGLISH<blockquote>For their part, the Arabs adopted the Mesopotamian name al-''Zubānā'' in their system of lunar stations, probably via Mandaic, an eastern Aramaic dialect of Iraq, in which "balance" is ''zibānīta*''. […] However, under the influence of the Greeks who saw in this region the Claws of the Scorpion, the Arab philologists wanted to explain ''al-Zubānā'' by the root √ZBN, "to push", giving this word the meaning of "claws", a meaning which they extended to the constellation of Cancer (see α and ι Cnc).</blockquote>see also Laffitte (online): “DU BABYLONIEN ZIBĀNĪTU(M) À L'ARABE AL-ZUBĀNĀ PAR LE MANDÉEN ZABĀNĪTĀ? ([https://www.selefa.asso.fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Instit07_T13.pdf PDF])

	==Discussion==		==Discussion==

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{{DISPLAYTITLE: Al-Zubānā ()}}
Arabic/ Arabian asterism
<ref>Ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallah b. Muslim. 1956. ''Kitāb al-anwāʾ (fī mawāsim al-ʿArab)''. Hyderabad: Maṭbaʿat Majlis Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmāniyya.</ref>
<ref>Kunitzsch, Paul. 1961. ''Untersuchungen zur Sternnomenklatur der Araber.'' Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.</ref>
<ref>al-Ṣūfī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUmar. 1981. ''Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thamāniya wa al-arbaʿīn.'' Beirut: Dār al-Āfāq al-Jadīda.</ref>

==Concordance, Etymology, History==

'''''al-TERM''''' in Adams (2018),<ref>Danielle Adams, ''Rain Stars Set, Lunar Stations Rise'', 2018</ref> pp. xx-xx.

'''''al-TERM''''' per Khalid AlAjaji

'''''al-TERM''''' in Laffitte (2012<ref>Roland Laffitte, ''Le ciel des Arabes'', 2012</ref>, 2025<ref>Roland Laffitte, ''Nommer les étoile: 500 noms hérités des Arabes - Apport de l'uranographie arabe'', Orient des Mots, 2025 ([https://uranos.fr/500-noms-herites-des-arabes/ online])</ref>).

==Discussion==

==IAU Working Group Star Names==

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== Reference ==

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