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alaioch (or: alaioc)
العيّوق al-ʿayyūq
n. ʿyq – ‘al-ʿayyūq’ (lit. ‘the preventer’) (star name: Capella, α Aurigae; name of the constellation Auriga) (astr.) show/hide quotes-
Ptol. Almag. no. XII: Stellatio retinentis habenas id est alaioc
Kuni.: صورة ممسك العنان وهو العيوق
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Ptol. Almag. no. 156, Baily 222: Que est super spatulam sinistram et dicitur hircus et est alaioch
Kuni.: الذى على المنكب الأيسر ويقال له العنز وهو العيوق
- 2 Ptol. Almag.
< Arabic. Kunitzsch 1959, 119–121, no. 27. Kunitzsch 1974, no. XII. The Latin terms are not documented in MLW, DMLBS and LLNMA.