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adhil
ذيل ḏayl
n. ḏyl – hem (of a garment) (in star description) show/hide quotes-
Ptol. Almag. no. 251, Baily 355: Septentrionalis duarum que sunt in sua instita et est super extremitatem adhil
Kuni. version u, see fn. 20: أميل الاثنين اللذين فى شى ما إلى الشمال وهو على طرف الذيل
- 1 Ptol. Almag.
< Arabic al-ḏayl, which is a calque of the Greek σύρμα ‘robe with a train’. The Latin term does not appear in MLW, DMLBS and LLNMA.