An alternate or archaic name for the star Gamma Virginis, located in the constellation Virgo.
From Arabic al-ðafāra or similar, a name used in medieval Islamic astronomy for this bright star. Arabic astronomical terminology was preserved and transmitted through European astronomy.
Medieval Arab astronomers named many of the brightest stars we still call by Arabic names today—'aldhafara' and its variants show how Islamic Golden Age astronomy literally named the stars, and those names stuck in Western science even as we 'Latinized' them.
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