An alternate spelling of aldhafara, referring to the star Gamma Virginis in the constellation Virgo.
Variant spelling of aldhafara, from Arabic astronomical terminology. Different transliterations from Arabic to Latin letters produced multiple English spellings of the same star name.
The existence of 'aldhafara' and 'aldhafera' shows the messy reality of transliterating Arabic into English—without standardized rules, different scholars produced different spellings, and both got recorded in astronomical catalogs throughout history.
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