Al Faras ( الفرس )

Al Faras الفرس is Arabic for The Horse.

Etymology and History

al-Faras in Laffitte (2012, 2025).

al-faras, The Horse, is an Indigenous Arabian constellation (drawing Laffitte 2012). Names in contemporary catalogs (Ίππος > al-Faras, ap. ms. de St-Pétersbourg)

Reading Variants B19.

• Ίππος / / al-Faras al-Ṯānī, « le Second Cheval » (Ḥağğāğ)
• al-Faras, « le Cheval » (Isḥāq, Battānī)
• al-Faras al-A^cẓam, « le Grand Cheval » (Isḥāq, Ṣūfī)
• al-Faras al-Muğannaḥ, « le Cheval ailé » (Bīrūnī)
• Buruṭūs ( ?) (Battānī)

Individual Star Names

Arabic (original)	Arabic transliteration	French (Laffitte 2025)	English	Author	identified star
	Ğanb al-Faras	le Flanc du Cheval	The Flank of the Horse	Battānī	α Peg
	Kitf al-Faras	l’Épaule du Cheval	The Shoulder? of the Horse	Bīrūnī	α Peg
	Mankib al-Faras	l’Épaule du Cheval	The Shoulder? of the Horse	Battānī	β Peg
	Ẓahr al-Faras	le Dos du Cheval	The Back of the Horse	Battānī	γ Peg
	al-Matan	le Paleron	The Shoulder Blade	Bīrūnī	γ Peg
	Matan al-Faras	le Paleron du Cheval	The Shoulder Blade of the Horse	Marrākušī	γ Peg
	Ṭaraf al-Ğanāḥ	le Bout de l’Aile	the tip? of the wing	Bīrūnī	γ Peg
	Ğanāḥ al-Faras	l’Aile du Cheval	The Wing of the Horse	Battānī	γ Peg
	Ğanāḥ	Aile	The Wing	Miṣrī	γ Peg
	Mankib al-Faras	l’Épaule du Cheval	The Shoulder of the Horse	Battānī	δ Peg
	al-Nayra	la Brillante	The Bright One	Bīrūnī	= α And
	Surrat al-Faras wa-ḥuwwa	l’Ombilic du Cheval	The Navel of the Horse	Marrākušī	= α And
	Ğaḥlafat al-Faras	la Lippe du Cheval	The Lip of the Horse	Battānī	ε Peg
	Fum al-Faras	la Gueule du Cheval	The Snout of the Horse	Marrākušī	ε Peg

Names in contemporary catalogs

Arabic (original)	Arabic transliteration	French (Laffitte 2025)	English	Author	identified stars
	ᶜUnuq al-Faras	le Cou du Cheval	The Neck of the Horse	Marrākušī	ζ Peg
	Rukbat al-Faras	le Genou du Cheval	The Knee of the Horse	Marrākušī	η Peg
	Ra’s al-Faras	la Tête du Cheval	The Head of the Horse	Marrākušī	θ Peg
	al-Kaᶜb al-Ayman	la Cheville droite	The Right Ankle	Bīrūnī	ι Peg
	Rukbat al-Faras	Le Genou du Cheval	The Knee of the Horse	Miṣrī	ι Peg
	al-Kaᶜb al-aysar	la Cheville gauche	The Left Ankle	Bīrūnī	κ Peg
	al-Kaᶜb al-aysar min al-Faras	la Cheville gauche du Cheval	The Left Ankle of the Horse	Marrākušī	κ Peg
	Ṣadr al-Faras	la Poitrine du Cheval	The Breast of the Horse	Marrākušī	λ Peg
	al-Rukbat al-aysar	le Genou gauche	The Left Knee	Bīrūnī	π Peg

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.