Kursialjawza (كرسي الجوزاء)
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Kursialjawza
Authors: Susanne M Hoffmann, Roland Laffitte
Kursialjawza (كرسي الجوزاء) is an Arabian asterism adjacent to Al Jawza. [1][2][3]
Concordance, Etymology, History
Adams (2018),[4] pp. xx-xx.
al-TERM per Khalid AlAjaji
Laffitte (2012[5], 2025[6]), in French transliterates the Jawza, al-Ğawzā’, or « Elgeuze = la Médiane » :
| Name Arabic | Name
(translit. French) |
translation
(English) |
identification
(RL) |
author |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kursī ’l-Ğawzā’ | the footrest of Al-Jawza | τ Ori + λβψEri | Qutayba | |
| Kursī ’l-Ğ. al-Muqadam | the front footrest of Al-Jawza | Ṣūfī | ||
| Kursī ’l-Ğ. al-Mu’aḫḫar | the rear footrest of Al-Jawza | αβγδ Lep | Ṣūfī | |
| ᶜArš al-Ğawzā’ | the footrest of Al-Jawza | Ṣūfī |
Discussion
IAU Working Group Star Names
The name was suggested to WGSN in 2026.
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Reference
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Kunitzsch, Paul. 1961. Untersuchungen zur Sternnomenklatur der Araber. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Danielle Adams, Rain Stars Set, Lunar Stations Rise, 2018
- ↑ Roland Laffitte, Le ciel des Arabes, 2012
- ↑ Roland Laffitte, Nommer les étoile: 500 noms hérités des Arabes - Apport de l'uranographie arabe, Orient des Mots, 2025 (online)
