Mirach

English

Etymology

Perhaps a corruption of Arabic مِئْزَر (miʔzar).

Proper noun

Mirach

1. (astronomy) 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.
   • 1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and Their Meanings, New York: G. E. Stechert, page 36:

     [Mirach was described in the Alfonsine Tables of 1521 as super mirat, from which has been derived its present title, as well as the occasional forms Mirac, Merach, Mirar, Mirath, Mirax, etc.; mirat probably coming from the 1515 Almagest's super mizar, the Arabic mi'zar, a girdle or waist-cloth. Scaliger, the great critical scholar of the 15th century, adopted this Mizar as a title, and Riccioli followed him in its use, thus confounding the star with ζ Ursae Majoris.]

Synonyms

• β (beta) Andromedae (primary designation), β And (abbreviated form), Beta Andromedae (Latinized form)

Holonyms

• Andromeda

References

• “Naming Stars”, in International Astronomical Union, 2018 June 1, List of IAU-approved Star Names.

Anagrams

• Hamric

Italian

Etymology

From Arabic مَرَاقّ (marāqq, “back, rear of the body”).

Proper noun

Mirach f

1. (astronomy) Mirach (the second brightest star in the constellation of Andromeda)

Anagrams

• Machri, marchi