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Homam en · PROPN

Etymology

From Arabic هُمَام (humām).

Meanings

  1. A slowly pulsating third-magnitude blue-white main-sequence star in the northern constellation of Pegasus.
    • [Homam seems to have been first given to this in the Palermo Catalogue, from Sa'd al Humām, the Lucky Star of the Hero, in which Ulug Beg included ξ; other lists have Homan. But Hyde said that the original was Al Hammām, the Whisperer.] 1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and Their Meanings, New York: G. E. Stechert, page 327:

Holonyms

Pegasus

Synonyms

Zeta Pegasi · ζ Pegasi · ζ Peg