Betelgeuse

Etymology
Ultimately from an alteration of the, from +.

Jawzā, ‘the central one’, initially referred to Gemini among the Arabs, but at some point they decided to refer to Orion by that name. During the Middle Ages the first character of the name, yā’ (ي, with two underdots), was misread as a bā’ (ب, with one underdot) when transliterating into Latin, and Yad al-Jauza became Bedalgeuze. This was then misinterpreted during the Renaissance as deriving from a corruption of an original Arabic form.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A bright-red supergiant intrinsic variable star, the second brightest star in the constellation Orion; Alpha (α) Orionis. It is the tenth brightest star in the nighttime, and one of the largest stars known.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Betelgeuse
 * Arabic: مَنْكِب اَلْجَوْزَاء
 * Armenian: Բետելգեյզե
 * Asturian: Betelgeuse
 * Azerbaijani: Bətəlqeyzə
 * Basque: Betelgeuse
 * Belarusian: Бетэльгейзэ
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: Betelgeuse
 * Bulgarian: Бетелгейзе
 * Burmese: ဘီတယ်ဂျူးစ်
 * Central Franconian: Beteijeuze
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 參宿四
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 参宿四
 * Czech: Betelgeuze
 * Danish: Betelgeuse
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: Betelgeuze
 * French:
 * Galician: Betelgeuse
 * Georgian: ბეთელგეიზე
 * German:
 * Greek: Μπετελγκέζ, Βετελγόζης
 * Hebrew: ביטלג׳וז
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Betelgás
 * Indonesian: Betelgeuse
 * Irish: Betelgeuse
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: Betelgeuse
 * Korean: 베텔게우스, 베텔기우스
 * Latin: Betelgeuze, Betelgeuse
 * Latvian: Betelgeize
 * Limburgish: Betelgeuze
 * Lithuanian: Betelgeizė
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Beteigeuze
 * Luxembourgish: Betelgeuse
 * Macedonian: Бетелгез
 * Malay: Betelgeuse
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: Pūtara
 * Marathi: काक्षी
 * Nauruan: Betelgeuse
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: Betelgeuse
 * Nynorsk: Betelgeuse
 * Occitan: Betelgeuse
 * Ossetian: Бетельгейзе
 * Persian: ابط‌الجوزا
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Betelgeuse
 * Punjabi: ਆਦਰਾ
 * Romanian: Betelgeuse
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: Spor Dearg
 * Serbo-Croatian: Betelgez
 * Sicilian: Betelgeuse
 * Slovak: Betelgeuze
 * Slovene: Betelgeza
 * Swahili: Ibuti la Jauza
 * Swedish: Betelgeuse
 * Tajik: Байтулҷавзо
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: Бителҗәүза
 * Thai: ดาวบีเทลจุส
 * Turkish: Betelgeuse
 * Ukrainian: Бетельгейзе
 * Uzbek: Betelgeyze
 * Vietnamese: Betelgeuse
 * Waray-Waray: Betelgeuse
 * West Flemish: Betelgeuze

Etymology
Ultimately from an alteration of the, from +.