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[[File:Rumh of Simakan RL map+draw.png|thumb|Arabian constellation al-Simak with Lances and Armes (CC BY Roland Laffitte 2025).]]
Al-Rumḥ (الرُمْح) is an Arabic/ Arabian asterism  
Al-Rumḥ (الرُمْح) is an 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>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>

Revision as of 09:29, 26 March 2026


Authors: Khalid Al-Ajaji, Susanne M Hoffmann, Roland Laffitte


Arabian constellation al-Simak with Lances and Armes (CC BY Roland Laffitte 2025).

Al-Rumḥ (الرُمْح) is an Arabic/ Arabian asterism [1] [2] [3]

Concordance, Etymology, History

Adams (2018),[4] pp. xx-xx.

Khalid AlAjaji

Laffitte (2012[5], 2025[6]) treats Al-Rumh as an alternative name for Muphrid (η Boo) in the constellation al-Simākān:

  • Rumh. Ar. الرمح al-Rumḥ, ‘the Spear’, al-Ṣūfī > Lat. Alromh, Yehūda b. Mošè, Lancea, Apian. Later, al-Rumḥ, al-Qazwīnī, not transcribed by Ideler, who gives Rumḥ al-Rāmiḥ according to al-Tīzīnī > ‘Rumh el-râmih’. Hence Ruma c/ Buttmann, ‘Al-Rumḥ’ p/ Allen, Nit. 02. Rumh al Ramih, Wiki/en

Discussion

IAU Working Group Star Names

Reference

  1. 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.
  2. Kunitzsch, Paul. 1961. Untersuchungen zur Sternnomenklatur der Araber. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
  3. 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.
  4. Danielle Adams, Rain Stars Set, Lunar Stations Rise, 2018
  5. Roland Laffitte, Le ciel des Arabes, 2012
  6. Roland Laffitte, Nommer les étoile: 500 noms hérités des Arabes - Apport de l'uranographie arabe, Orient des Mots, 2025 (online)