Aldebaran

Aldebaran

See also: Aldébaran and Aldebarán

English

Etymology

From Arabic اَلدَّبَرَان‎ (ad-dabarān, “the follower”) (because it follows the Pleiades).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /alˈdɛbəɹən/

Proper noun

Aldebaran

1. (astronomy) One of the brightest stars in the sky, now recognised to be a binary star in the constellation Taurus (alpha (α) Tauri); an orange giant, 68 light years from Earth. [from 14th c.]
   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:

     The kingly brilliancy of Sirius pierced the eye with a steely glitter, the star called Capella was yellow, Aldebaran and Betelgueux shone with a fiery red.

   • 2012 December 9, Alan Pickup, in The Guardian:

     The brightest object depicted is Jupiter which stands near the red giant star Aldebaran in Taurus.

Translations

star

Arabic: اَلدَّبَرَان‎ m (ad-dabarān) Chinese: Cantonese: 畢宿五, 毕宿五 (bat1 sau3 ng5) Mandarin: 畢宿五／毕宿五 (zh) (Bìxiùwǔ) Czech: Aldebaran Dutch: Aldebaran Estonian: Aldebaran Finnish: Aldebaran French: Aldébaran (fr) m German: Aldebaran (de) m Greek: Αλδεβαράν m (Aldevarán) Hebrew: אלדברן‎ Hindi: रोहिणी (hi) (rohiṇī) Icelandic: Aldebaran Indonesian: Aldebaran Italian: Aldebaran Japanese: アルデバラン (Arudebaran) Korean: 알데바란 (Aldebaran) Latin: Aldebaran Latvian: Aldebarans Lithuanian: Aldebaranas Malay: Aldebaran Maori: Taumata-kuku, Whetū-kura Navajo: sǫʼ ahótsʼiʼí Norwegian: Aldebaran Persian: دبران‎ (fa) (dabarân), پسیگ‎ (pasig), دیده گاو‎ (dīde-ye gāv) Polish: Aldebaran (pl) m anim Portuguese: Aldebarã f, Aldebaran f Romanian: Aldebaran Russian: Альдебара́н m (Alʹdɛbarán) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Алдебаран Roman: Aldebaran Spanish: Aldebarán (es) Swedish: Aldebaran Thai: ดาวอัลดิบาแรน Turkish: Aldebaran Ukrainian: Альдебаран (Alʹdebaran) Vietnamese: Aldebaran

Anagrams

• Labradane

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French

Alternative forms

• Aldébaran

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.də.ba.ʁɑ̃/

Proper noun

Aldebaran ?

1. (astronomy) Aldebaran
   • 1854, Gérard de Nerval, ‘Sylvie’, Les Filles du feu:

     Tour à tour bleue et rose comme l'astre trompeur d’Aldebaran, c'était Adrienne ou Sylvie, – c'étaient les deux moitiés d'un seul amour.

     Blue and pink by turns like the deceptive star of Aldebaran, it was Adrienne and Sylvie – they were the two halves of a single love.

Related terms

• aldébarien

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German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Aldebaran m

1. (astronomy) Aldebaran

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Italian

Etymology

From Arabic اَلدَّبَرَان‎ (ad-dabarān, “the follower”) (because it follows the Pleiades).

Proper noun

Aldebaran f

1. Aldebaran

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Polish

Etymology

Derived from Arabic اَلدَّبَرَان‎ (ad-dabarān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.dɛˈba.ran/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -aran
• Syllabification: Al‧de‧ba‧ran

Proper noun

Aldebaran m anim

1. (astronomy) Aldebaran

Declension

Declension of Aldebaran

	singular
nominative	Aldebaran
genitive	Aldebarana
dative	Aldebaranowi
accusative	Aldebarana
instrumental	Aldebaranem
locative	Aldebaranie
vocative	Aldebaranie

Further reading

• Aldebaran in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Aldebaran in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Aldebaran f

1. Alternative spelling of Aldebarã