Vela

See also: vela, veļa, vēla, vêla, velá, veļā, and vēlā

English

Etymology

Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vēla (pl. of vēlum), the "sails of a ship"

Proper noun

Vela

1. (astronomy) A spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the sails of a ship. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.

Derived terms

• Velorum

Translations

constellation

• Afrikaans: Seile
• Arabic: الشراع
• Armenian: Առագաստ (Aṙagast)
• Azerbaijani: Yelkən
• Bashkir: Елкәндәр (Yelkəndər)
• Belarusian: Ветразі (Vjetrazi)
• Bengali: ভেলা মণ্ডল (bhela monḍol)
• Breton: Gouelioù
• Bulgarian: Корабни платна (Korabni platna)
• Burmese: ဗီလာ (bila)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 船帆座 (syun⁴ faan⁴ zo⁶)

  Hakka: Sòn-fàm-chho

  Mandarin: 船帆座 (zh) (Chuánfānzuò)

  Min Dong: Sùng-pùng-cô̤

• Corsican: Vele
• Czech: Plachty (cs)
• Danish: Sejlet
• Esperanto: Velaro
• Estonian: Purjed
• Finnish: Purje (fi)
• French: Voiles (fr) m pl
• Georgian: იალქნების (ialknebis)
• German: Segel des Schiffs n
• Greek: Ιστία (el) (Istía)
• Hebrew: מפרש (he)
• Hindi: पाल (hi) (pāl)
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• Hungarian: Vitorla
• Irish: na Seolta m pl
• Italian: Vele f pl
• Japanese: ほ座 (ja)
• Latvian: Buras
• Lithuanian: Burės
• Macedonian: Едро (Edro)
• Malay: Layar
• Malayalam: കപ്പൽപ്പായ (kappalppāya)
• Norwegian: Seilet

  Nynorsk: Seglet

• Persian: بادبان (fa) (bâdbân)
• Polish: Żagiel (pl) m
• Romanian: Velele
• Russian: Паруса (Parusa)
• Slovak: Plachty
• Spanish: Vela (es) f
• Swahili: Tanga
• Swedish: Seglet (sv)
• Tamil: வேலா (vēlā)
• Thai: กลุ่มดาวใบเรือ
• Ukrainian: Вітри́ла (Vitrýla)
• Urdu: بادبان
• Uzbek: Yelkanlar
• Vietnamese: Thuyền Phàm
• Yakut: Парустар (Parustar)

See also

• Argo
• Argo Navis
• Carina
• Puppis
• Pyxis

Anagrams

• Leva, Vale, Veal, avel, eval, lave, leva, vale, veal