Kashmiri
names 18objects 14ISO 639-3 kas
Spoken in Kashmir valley.
vernacular 3 · borrowed 15
See the Kashmiri sky on the chart →
The sky in Kashmiri
| Name | Object | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| नब् nab | 'Sky' as a word | — | borrowed |
| ستاره sitāra | 'Star' as a word | — | vernacular |
| तारुख् tārukh | 'Star' as a word | — | borrowed |
| तारा tārā | 'Star' as a word | — | borrowed |
| श्रवुन् shrawun | Altair | The twenty-second of the twenty-seven lunar mansions. | borrowed |
| केथ् kēth | Comets | The same word is Ketu, the descending lunar node counted as the ninth planet. | borrowed |
| ह॑स्तु॒ hostu | Corvus | The thirteenth of the twenty-seven lunar mansions. | borrowed |
| सिंह् simh | Leo and Virgo | — | borrowed |
| वुल्का wulkā | Meteors and shooting stars | — | borrowed |
| मग् mag | Regulus | The tenth of the twenty-seven lunar mansions. | borrowed |
| आकाशगङ्ग ākāshĕ-gang | The Milky Way | 'the Ganges of the sky' | borrowed |
| क्रछ़् kraʦh | The Pleiades | — | borrowed |
| क्रच़ि-कूरू॒ kraʦi-kūrü | The Pleiades | 'a daughter of Kṛttikā' The plural kraʦi-kōrĕ is how the cluster as a whole is named. | vernacular |
| ثریا suraiya | The Pleiades | — | vernacular |
| न्य॑शि॑तुर् nĕshitur | The lunar mansions as a system | — | borrowed |
| ध्रुव् druv | The pole star | The compound druva-rāz, 'king Dhruva', is given as an equivalent. | borrowed |
| अरुन्धती arundati | Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) | — | borrowed |
| अबिज़्यथ् abizĕth | Vega | The intercalated twenty-eighth asterism, omitted from the standard twenty-seven. | 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. nab, p. 619 link
- 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. sitāra, p. 948 link
- 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. tārukh, p. 1024 link
- 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. tārā, p. 1018 link
- 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. shrawun, p. 896 link
- 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. kēth, p. 488 link
- 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. hostu, p. 354 link
- 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. simh, p. 912 link
- 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. wulkā, p. 1113 link
- 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
- 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. ākāshĕ-gang, p. 22 link
- 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. kraʦh, p. 477 link
- 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. kraʦi-kūrü, p. 477 link
- 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. suraiya, p. 940 link
- 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. nĕshitur, p. 657 link
- 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. druv, p. 250 link
- 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. arundati, p. 44 link
- 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. abizĕth, p. 8 link