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Regulus
Regulus and the stars of Maghā · α, γ, ζ, η, ν Leonis · Leo
names 3languages 3 Regulus α LeoHIP 49669mag 1.36
In the classical tradition this is मघा Maghā, attested in 6 texts.
The names
borrowed 3
| Name | Language | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| मग् mag | Kashmiri Kashmir valley | The tenth of the twenty-seven lunar mansions. | borrowed |
| മകം makam | Malayalam Kerala (Malabar, Cochin, Travancore) | Proverbial: മകം പിറന്ന മങ്ക, 'a girl born under Makam' — an auspicious birth. | borrowed |
| மாசி māci | Tamil Tamil Nadu | from Skt. māgha, the month of the Magha asterism The one Tamil month-name attested by name in the Caṅkam corpus itself, described there by its astronomical property: the month in which the day does not lengthen and the night grows. | borrowed |
Sources
- Sir George Abraham Grierson, A Dictionary of the Kashmiri Language, compiled partly from materials left by the late Pandit Isvara Kaula (Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1916-1932), s.v. mag, p. 551 link
- Gundert, A Malayalam and English Dictionary (1872), s.v. മകം makam, p. 769 link
- Patiṟṟuppattu 59, ll. 1-2 (Sixth Ten); Project Madurai e-text PM 0038 link