Schedar
English
editEtymology
editFrom Arabic صَدْر (ṣadr, “breast, chest”), in reference to its position within Cassiopeia.[1]
Proper noun
editSchedar
- (astronomy) Alpha Cassiopeiae, a star in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia.
References
edit- ^ Richard Hinckley Allen (1899) Star-names and Their Meanings, New York: G. E. Stechert, →OCLC, page 145