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الجون al-ǧawn
aliouze (or: alioze)
– for al-ǧawn: Alioth (star name: ε Ursae Majoris) (astr.) (lit. ‘the intensely coloured’) show/hide quotes-
Ptol. Almag. no. 23, Baily 33: Prima trium que sunt super caudam et est alioze
Kuni. version u, see fn.31: الأول من الثلاثة التى على الذنب وهو الذى هو الجون
- 1 Ptol. Almag.
The Latin translator obviously read al-ǧawzāʾ ‘Gemini’ instead of al-ǧawn. Kunitzsch 1959, 121–123, no. 29. Kunitzsch/Smart 2006, 56.
< Arabic. The Latin terms are not documented in MLW, DMLBS and LLNMA.