An-nāqa (الناقة)
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An-naqa
الناقة, al-Nāqa or an-naqa, The She-Camel, is an Arabic/ Arabian asterism.
Etymology and History
al-TERM in Adams (2018),[1] pp. xx-xx.
al-TERM per Khalid AlAjaji
al-TERM in Laffitte (2012[2], 2025[3]).
Discussion
IAU Working Group Star Names
Weblinks
Reference
Ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallah b. Muslim. 1956. Kitāb al-anwāʾ (fī mawāsim al-ʿArab). Hyderabad: Maṭbaʿat Majlis Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmāniyya.
Kunitzsch, Paul. 1961. Untersuchungen zur Sternnomenklatur der Araber. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
al-Ṣūfī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUmar. 1981. Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thamāniya wa al-arbaʿīn. Beirut: Dār al-Āfāq al-Jadīda.
