Etymograph

English

Mirach

Mirach may come from Arabic مِئْزَر ‘loincloth, overall, apron’.

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentمِئْزَرmiʔzar‘loincloth, overall, apron’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1899Mirach

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentمِئْزَرmiʔzar‘loincloth, overall, apron’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1899Mirach

Earliest quotation: 1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and Their Meanings: “[Mirach was described in the Alfonsine Tables of 1521…”

Every English word from Arabic مِئْزَر

Today it means

name A red giant, visible as a second-magnitude orange-red star marking the waist or girdle of the chained woman in the northern constellation of Andromeda.

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Etymograph / Arabic مِئْزَر / Mirach

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