asmaad

أسفيارasfiyār

n. ʾsfyārhorseman (in star description)
  1. Albu. Intro. JS 232, 698: Et caput albi Feithoriz, et dicitur Asmaad

    Lemay 387, 433: ورأس اسب قنطورس ويقال له اسفيار

  1. 1 Albu. Intro. JS

< Persian aswār ‘horseman’ or < Persian asp ‘horse’ and yār ‘companion’ (for the latter see Lemay 1995, vol. III, 469; vol. VI, 567). Kunitzsch 1974, 201–202. The Latin term is not documented in MLW, DMLBS and LLNMA. Cf. abi feithoris.

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