Schedar

English
A depiction of Cassiopeia. The label Schedir can be found on one of the breasts.

Etymology

From Arabic صَدْر (ṣadr, “breast, chest”), in reference to its position within Cassiopeia.[1]

Proper noun

Schedar

  1. (astronomy) Alpha Cassiopeiae, a star in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia.

References
  1. Richard Hinckley Allen (1899) Star-names and Their Meanings, New York: G. E. Stechert, →OCLC, page 145
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