Vela

Vela

See also: vela, velá, velà, velā, velă, veľa, veļa, veļā, véla, vēla, vēlā, vêla, and vǝla

English

Etymology

Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin vēla (“sails of a ship”), plural of vēlum. Doublet of veil.

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 (Yelkändär) Belarusian: Ветразі (Vjetrazi) Bengali: ভেলা মণ্ডল (bhela môṇḍôl) Breton: Gouelioù Bulgarian: Корабни платна (Korabni platna) Burmese: ဗီလာ (bila) Chinese: Cantonese: 船帆座 Hakka: Sòn-fàm-chho Mandarin: 船帆座 (zh) Min Dong: Sùng-pùng-cô̤ Corsican: Vele Czech: Plachty (cs) Danish: Sejlet Esperanto: Velaro Estonian: Purjed Finnish: Purje (fi) French: Voiles (fr) m pl Galician: Vela (gl) Georgian: იალქნების (ialknebis) German: Segel des Schiffs n Greek: Ιστία (el) (Istía) Hebrew: מפרש‎ (he) Hindi: पाल (hi) (pāl) 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

---

Spanish

Proper noun

Vela ?

1. Vela (constellation)
2. a surname