(20-12-2021, 08:20 PM)R. Sale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This is a search request specifically for stars that can be shown to be masculine. Preferably in a medieval European, historical and traditional context.
Nice , i wanted to know this but discovered that basically you have to speak arabic to do this.
Ptomely's Almagest was the goto list.
Book of Fixed Stars written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (known as Azophi in the West)
This nice list of Arabic star names, their meaning and the actual Arabic:
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the International Astronomical Union (IAU) formed a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN)
to compile and catalogue the star names that have
been commonly used throughout history
and to approve unique names with standardised spellings.
star-facts / star names gives the full 448 stars and their details.
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wikipedia list : "List of proper names of stars" , more or less same as above.
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<< All Arabic nouns carry grammatical gender whether they refer to animate or inanimate objects.
For inanimate objects, the relationship between grammatical gender and objects is arbitrary >>
In summary most star names are Arabic, some are greek, some just corrupted words and then the rest.