Hadar
The English word “Hadar” has 1 meaning listed here.
proper noun
- The second brightest star in the constellation of Centaurus, Beta Centauri
Etymology
From Arabic حضار. In Star-Names and Their Meanings, Richard Hinckley Allen writes, "Ḥḍar and Wazn, Ground and Weight, seem to have been applied without much definiteness to α and β of this constellation, and to stars in Argo, Columba, and Canis Major, probably on account of their proximity to the horizon; the meridian altitude of β, 1000 years ago at Cairo, is 30° of north latitude, being only…
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