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Vega
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In the classical tradition this is अभिजित् Abhijit, attested in 9 texts.
The names
vernacular 1 · tribal 2 · borrowed 2
| Name | Language | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| अबिज़्यथ् abizĕth | Kashmiri Kashmir valley | The intercalated twenty-eighth asterism, omitted from the standard twenty-seven. | borrowed |
| Bele kombro | Santali Santal Parganas, Jharkhand / adjoining Bengal and Odisha | the egg thief Part of a Santal figure in Lyra: two small stars are a pigeon's eggs and the bright star beside them is the thief that comes for them. | tribal |
| Potam bele | Santali Santal Parganas, Jharkhand / adjoining Bengal and Odisha | the imperial pigeon's eggs | tribal |
| අභි ජිත් abhi jit | Sinhala Sri Lanka | The intercalated 28th asterism, squeezed between the 21st and 22nd. | borrowed |
| نسر nasru'l-wāqiʻ | Urdu Urdu, from Arabic | 'the falling vulture' The Arabic name that gives English 'Vega'. Its pair, nasru'ṭ-ṭāʼir 'the flying eagle', is Altair; Platts calls the dual nasrain 'the constellations of the Eagle and the Lyre'. | vernacular |
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. abizĕth, p. 8 link
- Campbell, A Santali-English Dictionary (1899), s.v. Bele kombro, p. 51 link
- Campbell, A Santali-English Dictionary (1899), s.v. Potam bele, p. 512 link
- Carter, A Sinhalese-English Dictionary (Colombo, 1924), s.v. අභි ජිත් abhi jit, p. 50 link
- John T. Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (London, 1884), s.v. nasr, p. 1138 link