Sirius

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin Sīrius, from Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seirios)

Proper noun

Sirius

1. (astronomy) A bluish-white star in the constellation Canis Major; Alpha (α) Canis Majoris. A vertex of the Winter Triangle and the brightest star in the night sky. It is actually a binary star with a white dwarf companion star.

Synonyms

• (bluish-white star): Al Shira, Blazing Star, Canicula, Dog Star

Translations

Sirius

• Arabic: الشعرى f (al-šíʿrā)
• Avestan: 𐬙𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (Tištriia)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天狼星 (zh) (Tiānlángxīng)

• French: Sirius (fr) m
• German: Sirius (de) m
• Irish: Réalta an Mhadra f
• Japanese: シリウス (Shiriusu)
• Korean: 천랑성 (ko) (Cheonnangseong) (天狼星 (ko))
• Latin: Canicula f, Sirius m

• Malay: Bintang Anjing, Sirius
• Maori: Takurua
• Middle Persian: 𐭲𐭩𐭫 (Tīr), 𐭲𐭩𐭱𐭲𐭫 (Tištar)
• Persian: تیر (fa) (Tir), تیشتر (fa) (Tištar), شباهنگ (fa) (Šabâhang)
• Polish: Syriusz (pl) m
• Portuguese: Sírio f
• Russian: Сириус m (Sírius)
• Spanish: Sirio (es) m
• Swedish: Sirius (sv) c

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German

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Proper noun

Sirius m

1. (astronomy) Sirius

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seirios, “Seirios”), from σείριος (seirios, “scorching, destructive”)

Proper noun

Sīrius m (genitive Sīriī); second declension

1. (astronomy) Sirius