clunis

1.

لبنةlabina

n. lbn – unburnt brick, quadrangle (in star description)

  1. Ptol. Almag. no. 4, Baily 4: Meridiana a latere antecedente laterum clunium

    Kuni.: الكوكب الجنوبى من الضلع المتقدم من اللبنة al-kawkabu l-ǧanūbiyyu mina l-ḍilʿi l-mutaqaddimi mina l-labinati

  1. 1 Ptol. Almag.

The Arabic labina was probably misread by the Latin translator as alya ‘buttock’. Kunitzsch 1974, no. 4.

2.

أربيّةurbīya

n. rbw – root of the thigh (anat.) (in star description)

  1. Ptol. Almag. no. 307, Baily 435: Que est in clune sinistra gemini sequentis

    Kuni. version u, see fn. 12: الذى فى الأربية اليسرى من التوءم التالى allaḏī fī l-urbīyati l-yusrā mina l-tawʾami l-tālī

  1. 1 Ptol. Almag.

The Arabic urbīya was probably misread as alya ‘buttock’.

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