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'Constellation' as a word
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In the classical tradition this is तारा Tārā, attested in 1 texts.
The names
vernacular 2 · folk 1 · borrowed 1
| Name | Language | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| কুকুৰবাহী তৰা kukurabāhī tarā | Assamese Assam | uncertain; 'the kukurabāhī stars' — most plausibly kukurā 'fowl' + bāhī 'nest, roost', i.e. a brood of stars, matching the second Assamese word for the same thing, থুপিতৰা 'clustered stars' The living Assamese word for a star-cluster, and the word the dictionary itself uses to define সপ্তৰ্ষি-মণ্ডল at p. 859 ('একলগে থকা এজাক কুকুৰ-বাহী তৰা', 'a flock of kukurabāhī stars together'). Its synonym থুপিতৰা thupi-tarā is at p. 483. | folk |
| ಋಕ್ಷ ṛkṣa | Kannada Karnataka (Mysore, Canara, Deccan) | bear | borrowed |
| नगु गाः nagu gāḥ, pucaḥ nagu gāḥ | Newar (Nepal Bhasa) the Kathmandu valley | 'a group of stars' At the headword khākhem, where Manandhar gives kheca gāḥ 'a hen's egg' beside nagu gāḥ 'a constellation, group of many stars' and pucaḥ nagu gāḥ 'a group of many stars'. | vernacular |
| උළු uḷu | Sinhala Sri Lanka | also 'tiles' Compounds: උළු කැන uḷu kæna 'cluster of stars, constellation' (p. 130); උළිඳු uḷin̆du and උළු රජ uḷu raja, which Carter parses as 'උළු star, ඉඳු lord' — 'Star-lord, Star-king', an epithet of the moon (p. 130). | vernacular |
Sources
- Candrakanta Abhidhana (Assamese-Assamese-English), 2nd ed., Guwahati: Guwahati Bisbabidyalaya for the Assam Sahitya Sabha, 1962 (DSAL digital ed.), s.v. কুকুৰবাহী তৰা kukurabāhī tarā, p. 216 link
- Kittel, F., A Kannaḍa-English Dictionary (orig. Mangalore: Basel Mission, 1894); cited from the revised and enlarged edition, [Madras] University of Madras, 1968-71, as keyed for DSAL, s.v. ಋಕ್ಷ r̥kṣa, p. 269 link
- Thakur Lal Manandhar, Newari-English Dictionary: Modern Language of Kathmandu Valley (Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 1986), s.v. नगु गाः, p. 39 link
- Carter, A Sinhalese-English Dictionary (Colombo, 1924), s.v. උළු uḷu, p. 130 link