celhafeu

السلحفاةal-sulaḥfāt

n. slḥf – the turtle (name of the constellation Lyra) (astr.)

  1. Albu. Intro. JS 230, 637: Et pars corporis Allauzeuah, que est Celhafeu, et dicitur etiam Vultur Cadens

    Lemay 385, 393: وبعض بدن اللورا وهي السُلَحفاة، ويقال لها النسر الواقع أيضًا

  1. 1 Albu. Intro. JS

< Arabic sulaḥfāt. Cf. Kunitzsch 1959, 210, no. 186. Kunitzsch 1974, no. VIII. Kunitzsch/Smart 2006, 33: “Corresponding to the Greek image of a tortoise shell for the Lyre’s soundboard”. The Latin term does not appear in MLW, DMLBS and LLNMA.

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