Betelgeuse

See also: Bételgeuse

English

Etymology

Ultimately from an alteration of the Arabic يَد الجَوْزَاء‎ (yad al-jawzāʾ, “hand of the central one”), from يَد‎ (yad, “hand”) + جَوْزَاء‎ (jawzāʾ, “central one”).

Jawzā, ‘the central one’, initially referred to Gemini among the Arabs, but at some point they decided to refer to Orion by that name. During the Middle Ages the first character of the name, yā’ (ي, with two underdots), was misread as a bā’ (ب, with one underdot) when transliterating into Latin, and Yad al-Jauza became Bedalgeuze. This was then misinterpreted during the Renaissance as deriving from a corruption of an original Arabic form إِبْط الجَوْزَاء (ʾibṭ al-jawzāʾ, “armpit of the central one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːtəldʒuːz/, /ˈbɛtəldʒuːz/, /ˈbiːtəldʒuːs/

Proper noun

Betelgeuse

1. (astronomy) A bright-red supergiant intrinsic variable star, the second brightest star in the constellation Orion; Alpha (α) Orionis. It is the tenth brightest star in the nighttime, and one of the largest stars known.

Alternative forms

• Beetlejuice (eye dialect)

Translations

supergiant

• Afrikaans: Betelgeuse
• Arabic: مَنْكِب اَلْجَوْزَاء‎ m (mankib al-jawzāʾ)
• Armenian: Բետելգեյզե (Betelgeyze)
• Asturian: Betelgeuse
• Azerbaijani: Bətəlqeyzə
• Basque: Betelgeuse
• Belarusian: Бетэльгейзэ (Bjetelʹhjejze)
• Bengali: আর্দ্রা (ardra)
• Breton: Betelgeuse
• Bulgarian: Бетелгейзе (Betelgejze)
• Burmese: ဘီတယ်ဂျူးစ် (bhitaigyuc:)
• Central Franconian: Beteijeuze
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 參宿四 参宿四 (sam¹ sau³ sei³)

  Mandarin: 參宿四 (zh), 参宿四 (zh) (Shēnxiùsì)

  Wu: 参宿四

• Czech: Betelgeuze
• Danish: Betelgeuse
• Dutch: Betelgeuze (nl)
• Estonian: Betelgeuse (et)
• Finnish: Betelgeuze
• French: Bételgeuse (fr) f
• Galician: Betelgeuse
• Georgian: ბეთელგეიზე (betelgeize)
• German: Beteigeuze (de) m
• Greek: Μπετελγκέζ (Betelgkéz), Βετελγόζης (Vetelgózis)
• Hebrew: ביטלג'וז‎
• Hungarian: Betelgeuze
• Icelandic: Betelgás
• Indonesian: Betelgeuse
• Irish: Betelgeuse
• Italian: Betelgeuse (it) f
• Japanese: ベテルギウス (ja) (Beterugiusu)
• Javanese: Betelgeuse
• Korean: 베텔게우스 (betelge'useu), 베텔기우스 (betelgiuseu)
• Latin: Betelgeuze, Betelgeuse
• Latvian: Betelgeize
• Limburgish: Betelgeuze

• Lithuanian: Betelgeizė
• Low German:

  German Low German: Beteigeuze

• Luxembourgish: Betelgeuse
• Macedonian: Бетелгез (Betelgez)
• Malay: Betelgeuse
• Malayalam: തിരുവാതിര (ml) (tiruvātira)
• Maori: Pūtara
• Marathi: काक्षी (kākṣī)
• Nauruan: Betelgeuse
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Betelgeuse

  Nynorsk: Betelgeuse

• Occitan: Betelgeuse
• Ossetian: Бетельгейзе (Betelʹgejze)
• Persian: ابط‌الجوزا‎ (ibt al-joza)
• Polish: Betelgeza (pl) f
• Portuguese: Betelgeuse f
• Punjabi: ਆਦਰਾ (ādarā)
• Romanian: Betelgeuse
• Russian: Бетельгейзе (ru) (Betelʹgejze)
• Serbo-Croatian: Betelgez
• Sicilian: Betelgeuse
• Slovak: Betelgeuze
• Slovene: Betelgeza
• Swahili: Ibuti la Jauza
• Swedish: Betelgeuse
• Tajik: Байтулҷавзо (Baytuljavzo)
• Tamil: திருவாதிரை (ta) (tiruvātirai)
• Tatar: Бителҗәүза (Bitelcäüza)
• Thai: ดาวบีเทลจุส (daao beetenjòot)
• Turkish: Betelgeuse
• Ukrainian: Бетельгейзе (Betelʹhejze)
• Uzbek: Betelgeyze
• Vietnamese: Betelgeuse
• Waray-Waray: Betelgeuse
• West Flemish: Betelgeuze

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b̥etˢɛlˈɡ̊øːsə]

Proper noun

Betelgeuse (genitive Betelgeuses)

1. Betelgeuse

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Italian

Etymology

Ultimately from an alteration of the Arabic يَد الجَوْزَاء‎ (yad al-jawzāʾ, “hand of the central one”), from يَد‎ (yad, “hand”) + جَوْزَاء‎ (jawzāʾ, “central one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be.telˈd͡ʒɛw.ze/

Proper noun

Betelgeuse f

1. Betelgeuse

References

Betelgeuse in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)