Mizar Definition
mīzär
noun
A multiple star, the brighter companion in an optical double star at the middle of the Big Dipper's handle: magnitude, 2.23
Webster's New World
Origin of Mizar
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New Latin from Arabic mi’zar covering, apron (used as the name of the star Beta Andromeda, representing part of Andromeda's apron or girdle, but later applied to the star Mizar by Joseph Justus Scaliger, by confusion with an earlier name of Mizar, Mirak) from ’azara to surround ℵzr in Semitic roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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