Eastern Astrology present in VMS

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Thai: ดาวลูกไก่ Dāwlūkkị̀ "Chicken star"

To be precise: ลูกไก่ means chick, or "baby chicken". Thai does not modify words for plural, and this is almost certainly a plural, so "chick stars".
I strongly suspect that this is a rather modern name.

Another name for Pleaides is กัตติกา or Kattika (I did not know this - got it from Google translate :-) ). This derives from Sanskrit and I suspect it is the older name. (Thai borrows more words from Sanskrit / Pali than English from Latin / French. These all tend to be more formal words).

For the Sanskrit word, see here: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.