Arshaljawza (عرش الجوزاء)
Arshaljawza
Authors: Khalid Al-Ajaji, Susanne M Hoffmann, Roland Laffitte
Arshaljawza (عرش الجوزاء), the Throne of Al Jawza, is an Arabian asterism [1] [2] [3]
Concordance, Etymology, History
Adams (2018),[4] pp. xx-xx.
...
Khalid AlAjaji
Roland Laffitte (2012[5], 2025[6]) writes:
Arsh al-Jauzah (δ Lep : 3,8) / أرش Introduit à la fin du XXe siècle, ce nom est cArš al-Ğawzā’, « le Repose-pied d’Elgeuze », qui correspond au groupe αβγδ Lep (voir aussi α Lep). Ar. cArš al-Ğawzā’, al-Ṣūfī p/ αβγδ Lep > ‘Arsh AlGjauza’, Hyde, noté Arsh p/ α Lep, Allen. Arsh al-Jauzah, Rhoads. NB : cette étoile est en turc Ricl-ül-erneb-üş-şimâlî , soit « le Pied septentrional du Lièvre », tiré d’un traité en langue turque c/ Pultar.
Arsh al-Jauzah (δ Lep: 3.8) / أرش Introduced at the end of the 20th century, this name is cArš al-Ğawzā’, ‘Elgeuze’s Footrest’, which corresponds to the αβγδ Lep group (see also α Lep). Ar. cArš al-Ğawzā’, al-Ṣūfī p/ αβγδ Lep > ‘Arsh AlGjauza’, Hyde, noted as Arsh p/ α Lep, Allen. Arsh al-Jauzah, Rhoads. NB: this star is known in Turkish as Ricl-ül-erneb-üş-şimâlî, meaning ‘the Northern Foot of the Hare’, taken from a treatise in Turkish c/ Pultar.
Discussion
IAU Working Group Star Names
The name was suggested to WGSN in 2026.
Weblinks
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)
