algol

1.

الغولal-ġūl

n. ġwl – the demon (i.e. (the head of) Medusa in the constellation Perseus) (astr.)

  1. Ptol. Almag. no. 141, Baily 202: Lucida earum que sunt in capite algol

    Kuni.: النير من التى فى رأس الغول

  1. 1 Ptol. Almag.
2.

نولnawl

n. nwl – loom (in star description)

  1. Albu. Intro. JS 232, 677: Et ascendit in hac facie … corpus Sagitte que vocatur Algol

    Lemay 386, 418: ويطلع في هذا الوجه … بدن السهم الَّذي يسَمّى النوك [var.: النول] [var.: الغول]

  1. 1 Albu. Intro. JS

The Arabic variant al-ġūl was translated into Latin.

[ The Greek ὀϊστός ‘arrow’ was misread by the Arabic translator as ἱστός ‘loom’. Kunitzsch 1974, no. XV. ]

< Arabic. The Latin term is not documented in MLW, DMLBS and LLNMA.

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