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Grus en · PROPN

Etymology

Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From Latin grūs (“a crane (bird)”), originally from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”).

Meanings

  1. A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a crane. It contains the star Alnair and lies south of the constellation Piscis Austrinus.

Deriveds

Gruis

Translations (21)

pl Żuraw (spring constellation of the southern sky) · lt Gervė (spring constellation of the southern sky) · ja 鶴座 (spring constellation of the southern sky) · cs Jeřáb (spring constellation of the southern sky) · ms Burung Keria (spring constellation of the southern sky) · kk Тырна (spring constellation of the southern sky) · eo Gruo (spring constellation of the southern sky) · is Hegrinn (spring constellation of the southern sky) · fr Grue (spring constellation of the southern sky) · cmn 天鶴座 /天鹤座 (spring constellation of the southern sky) · ja つる座 (spring constellation of the southern sky) · ru Жура́вль (spring constellation of the southern sky) · gl Grou (spring constellation of the southern sky) · de Kranich (spring constellation of the southern sky) · sk žeriav (spring constellation of the southern sky) · ga an Chorr (spring constellation of the southern sky) · it gru (spring constellation of the southern sky) · es Grus (spring constellation of the southern sky) · ko 두루미자리 (spring constellation of the southern sky) · vo sigrud (spring constellation of the southern sky) · fi Kurki (spring constellation of the southern sky)